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Date:      Fri, 26 Jul 2002 14:53:28 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: exit on signal 4s ?
Message-ID:  <20020726145202.G67766-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020725132333.04153be8@marble.sentex.ca>

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On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> If this was just one machine I would figure its hardware going bad, but I
> have seen this a 4 different boxes now.  The odd process exiting on a
> signal 4. These are all stable boxes from a few dates in July.
>
> Jul 22 15:50:23 coal /kernel: pid 91818 (httpd), uid 98: exited on signal 4
> Jul 22 15:50:23 coal /kernel: pid 91790 (httpd), uid 98: exited on signal 4
> Jul 22 15:50:23 coal /kernel: pid 91789 (httpd), uid 98: exited on signal 4
> and
> Jul 20 20:00:57 marble /kernel: pid 20368 (grep), uid 103: exited on signal
> 4 (core dumped)
>
> for example.  Is it just coincidence or is something going on ?

    You've compiled for a different processor family than you're
running on, and the program is dying when it hits an instruction that
your processor does not have (signal 4 == SIGILL).

    E.g., you built with CPUTYPE=i686 or k7 and you're running on
something older.

-- 
Chris BeHanna                      http://www.pennasoft.com
Principal Consultant
PennaSoft Corporation
chris@pennasoft.com


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