Hi Everybody,

while I connecting to the server from my pc thro' Putty or F-Secure
SSH Client... It displays the follwing msg.....

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PuTTY Fatal Error
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Server sent disconnect message
type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR):
"fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"
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OK
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Anybody explain me abt the error....

Thanks in Advance.........

On 2006-12-12, karan <skwkks@gmail.com> wrote:
> ---------------------------
> PuTTY Fatal Error
> ---------------------------
> Server sent disconnect message
> type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR):
> "fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"

It means that the SSH daemon running on that particular machine
can't find free resources (memory, number of processes, number
of open files, etc.) to fork off another instance that will be
handling your session. You should probably have your sysadmins
have a look at the machine. Have them identify which resource
is in shortage and either increase the allowed number for that
particular one, or reduce the number of already running processes
using it. They should also have some sort of out-of-band access
in case this isn't a temporary problem and noone can access the
machine anymore.

Regards,

Frank

On Dec 12, 12:43 pm, Frank Fegert <fra.nospam...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2006-12-12, karan <skw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ---------------------------
> > PuTTY Fatal Error
> > ---------------------------
> > Server sent disconnect message
> > type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR):
> > "fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"It means that the SSH daemon running on that particular machine
> can't find free resources (memory, number of processes, number
> of open files, etc.) to fork off another instance that will be
> handling your session. You should probably have your sysadmins
> have a look at the machine. Have them identify which resource
> is in shortage and either increase the allowed number for that
> particular one, or reduce the number of already running processes
> using it. They should also have some sort of out-of-band access
> in case this isn't a temporary problem and noone can access the
> machine anymore.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank


Thanks Frank....

I got a similar problem once when a test program went into recursive
fork... I had to manually reboot the machine.. nothing would work..
even in the console, ksh wouldn't work...

Thanks and regards,
Rajbir Bhattacharjee

Frank Fegert wrote:
> On 2006-12-12, karan <skwkks@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ---------------------------
> > PuTTY Fatal Error
> > ---------------------------
> > Server sent disconnect message
> > type 2 (SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR):
> > "fork failed: Resource temporarily unavailable"
>
> It means that the SSH daemon running on that particular machine
> can't find free resources (memory, number of processes, number
> of open files, etc.) to fork off another instance that will be
> handling your session. You should probably have your sysadmins
> have a look at the machine. Have them identify which resource
> is in shortage and either increase the allowed number for that
> particular one, or reduce the number of already running processes
> using it. They should also have some sort of out-of-band access
> in case this isn't a temporary problem and noone can access the
> machine anymore.
>
> Regards,
>
> Frank

Prob. you ran out of paging space on the machine

yep.. i know that.. but i was kind of suggesting him to reboot his
machine manually if his situation was similar..

Thanks and regards,
Rajbir Bhattacharjee
Bobohoolie wrote:
> Prob. you ran out of paging space on the machine