From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 19 15:44:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5811E1065670 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 15:44:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gunther.mayer@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D629A8FC14 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 15:44:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gunther.mayer@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id q2so617264uge.37 for ; Mon, 19 May 2008 08:44:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; bh=MP+RD5D9bKrQbaJKq0MATBW8zQami3L7iUs1GxtDwdU=; b=XlxJddKHD+oMM2zCRt+h6uL9zD4fF3+d4bnTqlhrg5onYxFCiphPUElWz0+IyWyJ2zthGA11UCxJUKNk3gR3t/wguRyJG+HjngFl+opfRR+1tVide+zmNdnfibcBZtX7x6ldJ6lHMj/6py1U2GvceB9ulNAAxuwvpcACoOOSIXA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=NHJyApsRwziZHCrj8n0PSxOhisINrdhRsIwtWZN/edghoWLnVEi327h8C8ojWh3sqelwhxl2pW23XTBbqAeydbgiJ7vEOpShBUrF3BtCgjIIaoR9UaqLGUgjimXqk+lROi0GWJ9vqLZoobHuxXHYlkXtlS35ymxnEi/F7RjK+8c= Received: by 10.67.15.2 with SMTP id s2mr4082438ugi.87.1211210273424; Mon, 19 May 2008 08:17:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?172.25.0.180? ( [196.7.14.186]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c1sm1738996ugf.72.2008.05.19.08.17.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 19 May 2008 08:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <483199E1.5040505@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 17:16:49 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Gunther Mayer Cc: Subject: The impossible happened, committing suicide X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:44:43 -0000 Hi there, I couldn't quite believe it when I saw it. I received an email from cron stating Assertion failed: (0 && "The impossible happened, committing suicide"), function load_plist, file store_txt.c, line 840. Abort trap Obviously a developer's joke, but I'm concerned that there might be a real problem. Would anybody here have any clue as to why this would occur? This happened when executing the following daily (early morning) job on our development server: portsnap cron update >/dev/null && portsdb -u 2>/dev/null && [ $(hostname) = mydevserver ] && portsearch -u The hostname check we have in there is necessary because while portsearch is handy, it's very resource hungry and thus only tolerable in a testing environment - we share the crontab through svn between our live and dev box. I've now received the same output twice - once yesterday morning and once this morning, chances are I'll get the same tomorrow again... Gunther