error_unable_to_load_interpreter

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Subject: Re: kernel: Unable to load interpreter
From: Steve Borho <steve@borho.org>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 17:35:03 -0500


On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 01:26:36PM -0400, Charles Galpin wrote:
> Out of the blue, I go this in my messages log. I also got some messages to
> tohe console which looked like memory allocation errors before losing my
> terminal.
> 
> May 17 11:12:43 pooh kernel: Unable to load interpreter
> May 17 11:13:14 pooh last message repeated 612 times
> 
> 
> This continued unitl a reboot. I was not able to trouble shoot this
> because I couldn't ssh back in.
> 
> any ideas? All was fine until this, and it seems fine after the reboot. Do
> I have a memory problem.

You had a runaway process.  Basically your machine was run out of virtual
memory.  It's hard to determine, post-mortem, what it was that caused it.

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