Re: [tlug] Out of Memory: can't log in to my machine

[David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn@example.com>]

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 19:38, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> I have a RH machine running as a web server and this morning I came in 
> to find the following message being repeatedly displayed on the root 
> console:
> 
> Out of Memory: Killed process 13649 (httpd)
> 
> I can't even log in to the machine. I get the login prompt and can enter 
> a login name but the password prompt never comes up.
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can log in to the machine 
> without rebooting it? I would like to have a look around and see what 
> caused this problem. I'm guessing it's something a user installed 
> (possibly MySQL or a Perl cgi) and want to track this problem down.
> 
If you cant ssh in, then reboot and try single user mode.
It looks like the hard disk is full, but if that was the case, root
should still be able to log in.