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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 1997 21:24:08 -1000
From:      richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Hardware <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: programs dying with SIGBUS after long uptime
Message-ID:  <199711030724.VAA05159@pegasus.com>
In-Reply-To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> "Re: programs dying with SIGBUS after long uptime" (Nov  3, 11:15am)

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} 
} Note that once a text image has been corrupted during execution, 
} repeated execution of the same image will run the (corrupted) sticky 
} copy in core until same is flushed; this basically means that once a 
} program has died due to memory corruption you need to reboot.
} 

Or put a fresh copy of the binary into memory.  As an example, if
/bin/date is corrupted do this to refresh it:

	cp -p /bin/date /tmp
	mv /bin/date /bin/date.corrupt
	mv /tmp/date /bin/

This assumes that cp and mv are still good.


Richard



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