From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 20:45:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA01151 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA01134 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 20:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id TAA01693 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 19:21:06 -0700 Received: from dingo.enc.edu (dingo.enc.edu [199.93.252.229]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA06763 for ; Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:19:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:20:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens Reply-To: Charles Owens To: questions list FreeBSD Subject: Signal 11 problem: sh dies, user's can't log in!! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Welp, I'm back, with the problem of the week :-) . Several times, lately, my box that serves as email host and web server has been getting itself into a state where when a user logs in, sh dies with a signal 11. Sessions that are open before this state sets in remain fine, and I can still log in as root and look around. Everything (swapspace, processes, etc.) seems fine, except for the signal 11 behavior. Sampe syslog output: Apr 29 16:38:41 itsdsv1 /kernel: pid 8739 (sh), uid 1154: exited on signal 11 The system can be up just fine for several days with no signs of trouble, and then, seemingly out of the blue, it happens. The only solution I've found thus far is to reboot. Not a happy thing for my users!! How should I proceed to track down the problem? Some background about the system: running FreeBSD 2.1-stable (supped 3/16/96) Using NIS (almost 500 users), quotas Apache 1.0.2, popper, imapd Pine 3.93 w/patches from Guy Helmer ASUS P55TP4XE P100, 64 MB 60ns RAM, 512k PB cache Thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------