Re: Unable to load interpreter

Aaron M. Ucko (amu@mit.edu)
23 Mar 1998 16:03:45 -0600


Brian Rogers <brogers@why.net> writes:

> > Can anybody help me with such problem: After a few days of working my
> > Linux server crashes. Every minute kernel types on terminal: Unable to
> > load interpreter. Anybody can't see server on network and I can't login
> > to it from terminal. I think something eat's up all memory. Where
> > should I see the reasons of this crash? I'm using RH 4.1, 2.0.33, Intel
> > Providence 430FX MB, 128 Mb RAM
>
> I would say that your hard-drive had a problem and now /bin/bash is
> corrupted. Since /bin/bash is the second-most important executable on
> your file-system (/sbin/init being the first), you can't boot. And it is
> an interpreter. Since you were able to post messages from your log, I
> guess you have a rescue disk. I would advise using this to replace
> /bin/bash.

Um, no. The messages just mean that (for whatever reason) something's
eating up so much memory on his system that the kernel can't even load
ld-linux.so (the "interpreter" for dynamically-linked ELF binaries).

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu) [Stark raving sane]

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