From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 6 13:16:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA05412 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 13:16:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05405 Mon, 6 May 1996 13:16:40 -0700 (PDT) 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 QAA00604; Mon, 6 May 1996 16:16:08 -0400 Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 16:16:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Followup: signal 11 problem solved by yanking DDB! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------