Forum OpenACS Q&A: aolserver 4 bootstrap fails

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1: aolserver 4 bootstrap fails
Posted by Jarkko Laine on 07/22/03 11:39 PM
I finally got all the bells and whistles compiled on Mac OS X, but when trying to launch nsd, the bootstrap fails with the following error: 
[22/Jul/2003:23:28:42][605.2684358124][-main-] Notice: modload: loading '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nslog.so'
nsthreads: pthread_attr_setstacksize failed in NsCreateThread: Invalid argument
Abort trap
What could be the reason for this?
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2: Re: aolserver 4 bootstrap fails (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 07/23/03 12:14 AM
Do you have your limits set correctly?  Max OS X sets them pretty low, to install Oracle you need to override the defaults.  I've incorporated the ulimit values from Oracle's install directory in /etc/profile and have had no problems:

ulimit -c unlimited
ulimit -d unlimited
ulimit -s 65536

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3: Re: aolserver 4 bootstrap fails (response to 2)
Posted by Jarkko Laine on 07/23/03 06:30 PM
Thx Don,

I'm using Postgres, though, but I guess this applies even with it. I put the lines in /etc/profile, but it didn't help, even after rebooting the whole box. The behaviour changed a bit, though: now I even get "(core dumped)" after the errors given above.

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4: Re: aolserver 4 bootstrap fails (response to 1)
Posted by russ m on 07/24/03 01:59 AM
on OSX the per thread stack must be sized to a multiple of 8K... 
ns_section "ns/threads"
ns_param stacksize [expr 8192 * whatever]
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5: Re: aolserver 4 bootstrap fails (response to 4)
Posted by Jarkko Laine on 07/24/03 03:34 PM
Thanks Russell, that did the trick.