Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:02:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez <victor@usac.edu.gt> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lpd problem (exiting on signal 11) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961017200146.5360G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.93.961017104030.27285A-100000@ns.usac.edu.gt>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0 in a DEC Venturis 590 (pentium 90 MHz) with 8 > MB RAM (I know... that's too small, but already tried increasing RAM to > 16MB without improvement). The problem is when I try to start a printer. > Immediatly, I get the following error: > > /kernel: pid xxx: lpd: uid 0: exited on signal 11 > > and a core dump is saved to the spooler directory. > > (nothing comes out at the printer, by the way) > > Any hints? Did you check your /etc/printcap for correctness? Have you tried replacing the lpd binary? It's dying too quickly to be a memory problem, and you'd see every other program sig11'ing too. > P.S. Anyone knows if there is any project of porting FreeBSD to the DEC > Alpha platform? I realy would love to throw away DEC OSF/1 :-) Long ago Terry Lambert was working on this, until the development machine disappeared. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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