From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 22 19:00:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29246 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:00:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29240 for ; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:00:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA28903; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA11211; Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:00:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:00:07 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199901230300.TAA11211@vashon.polstra.com> To: damascus@eden.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: Is this core normal or something sinister? Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990122193125.007ff690@email.eden.rutgers.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <3.0.5.32.19990122193125.007ff690@email.eden.rutgers.edu>, Carroll Kong 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message