Re: Anyone know what this error means?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 12:33:57PM -0500, Derek Glidden wrote:
> It apparently *is* a kernel bug, with the basic problem being that for
> some reason the kernel isn't recognizing ulimits if you 'su' to the root
> user.  (Although in my experience it will also pop up if you "ssh"

The problem is a broken pam_limits. It has nothing to do with the kernel.

root, su and sudo have different pam setups. Likely all problems will go
away if you comment out pam_limits from all files in /etc/pam.d/* 

There were historically some problems with quotas because the value 
meaning unlimited quota was once different in glibc and kernel, which
caused and still causes endless confusion

-Andi