From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 3 15:55:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA13566 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA13552 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 15:55:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08241; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:53:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA00659; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 23:31:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810032231.XAA00659@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Travis Stevenson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp core dump (bus error) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Oct 1998 17:52:49 PDT." <19981003005249.22584.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 23:31:49 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This has been a interesting problem. I have two machines one is > Intel 133 and the other is Intel 166MMX > > I tried this on both machines and I get a core dump (bus error) [.....] > do I need to look for newer ppp code. > could it be a i386 general protection fault. You could try the version on http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html There are instructions/suggestions in the FAQ at http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html explaining how to get a core dump (although your best bet is probably to use gdb on the -g version of ppp rather than trying to get a core) and what to do with it when you've got it. > Travis Stevenson > stevensontw@hotmail.com Cheers. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message