Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:16:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Followup: signal 11 problem solved by yanking DDB! Message-ID: <Pine.FBS.3.93.960506155642.1525J-100000@dingo.enc.edu>
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Hi,
I posted awhile back that my 2.1-stable (supped 3/16/96) system would
periodicly not allow users to log in. When a user tried, /etc/motd would
be displayed and the connection would then close. The system log would
show that the user's shell had died with a signal 11.
When the system got into this state, I could still log in as root and poke
around; everything that I could think of checking looked fine. The only
thing I could do to recover from the situation was to reboot.
On a whim, I recompiled the kernel without DDB, which I'd added a few
weeks earlier (perhaps around the time these symptoms first appeared) and
gave it a try. Without DDB, the problem has gone away!
I'm not too sure what conclusions can be drawn from this, I simply offer
this info as a datapoint.
FYI, my system uses quotas and NIS and has a ASUS P55TP4XE motherboard and
64 megs RAM.
I hope this info is of some use to someone...
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