Failed to fork - Need help!

i92guboj · 10-12-2011, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by phoenixfire

About 50% of the processes i can see are 'kworker'. Are there supposed to be that many?

Those are kernel threads and there's no problem with having many of them at any random moment.

The numbers you posted are from inside X while the fork problem is present? If so, then it's time to look elsewhere, since they seem normal (as you can see mine are even higher).

phoenixfire · 10-12-2011, 01:36 AM

Yeah that's from inside X. I'm thinking it must be something to do with the users since i don't have this problem on the root account.

i92guboj · 10-13-2011, 06:44 AM

Just to discard some obvious thing, how are you going into X? Are you using some display manager (xdm, kdm, gdm, slim, entrance, etc.)? Or are you using an .xinitrc file?

In the former case, can you try a different login manager?

In the later case, can you post the contents of your ~/.xinitrc?

On a related note, and since this seems to be related to user permissions in some way, can you check these few things:

USE="consolekit policykit udev dbus" emerge -auDvN world, does it report anything?
rc-update show | grep consolekit, is it listed there?
if not, do "rc-update add consolekit default" and "/etc/init.d/consolekit start", then restart X or your display manager.

phoenixfire · 10-16-2011, 11:06 PM

Hey there i92guboj, i ended up giving up and doing a clean install. Everything is working fine now. Thank very much for all your help. My inpatients got the better of me but i'm sure we'd have eventually worked it out. Thank you again!