Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:00:07 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: damascus@eden.rutgers.edu Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this core normal or something sinister? Message-ID: <199901230300.TAA11211@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990122193125.007ff690@email.eden.rutgers.edu>
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In article <3.0.5.32.19990122193125.007ff690@email.eden.rutgers.edu>,
Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> At 05:37 PM 1/22/99 -0500, Craig Shrimpton wrote:
> >I found this in my dmesg queue. I've not seen this one before and I'm
> >wondering if this is some kind of crack or a normal crash.
> >
> >"pid 18958 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)"
> >
> >I don't have a clue to what conftest is.
> >
> >-Craig
>
> I got this error on occasion as well. I think after a while of cvsupping
> and recompiling the kernel, it disappeared. Did you just cvsup recently?
Hang on, guys. Somebody was running a program named "conftest" and it
got an assertion failure. There's nothing more to it than that.
John
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