ERROR

Traceback Failure During Error Recovery

Last Published: April 25, 2020

Error Message

Rpcserver.start fails with the following error message on AIX 4.3.x.

------------------- TRACEBACK -------------------------
Module "IPC " Message 1: file "err.c " line 453
Module "Event" Message -1: file "event.c " line 2735
Module "IPC " Message 1: file "err.c " line 453
Module "Event" Message -1: file "event.c " line 2735
Module "CBlok" Message -1: file "/av31src/arcview/avenue/cblok.c" line 1552
Module "Script" Message -1: file "/av31src/arcview/avenue/script.c" line 151
Module "Script" Message -1: file "/av31src/arcview/avenue/script.c" line 324
-------------------------------------------------------
FATAL ERROR Failure during error recovery

------------------- TRACEBACK -------------------------
Module "IPC " Message 1: file "err.c " line 453
Module "Event" Message -1: file "event.c " line 2735
Module "IPC " Message 1: file "err.c " line 453
Module "Event" Message -1: file "event.c " line 2735
Module "IPC " Message 1: file "err.c " line 453
Module "Event" Message -1: file "event.c " line 2735
Module "CBlok" Message -1: file "/av31src/arcview/avenue/cblok.c" line 1552
Module "Script" Message -1: file "/av31src/arcview/avenue/script.c" line 151
Module "Script" Message -1: file "/av31src/arcview/avenue/script.c" line 324
-------------------------------------------------------
FATAL ERROR Failure during error recovery
Abort process

Cause

The nofiles option is set to -1.

According to the IBM documentation, settings any of the
variables in /etc/security/limits to -1 can lead that variable to grow without a
limit. Unfortunately, setting the nofiles option to -1 causes the
rpcserver.start to produce the traceback error message.

Solution or Workaround



Set nofiles to 2000.

Article ID:000003694

Software:
  • Legacy Products

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