Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:06:50 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: few programs now getting sig 6 Message-ID: <200502151806.51203.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1c347c3282b5a66df40546b54cc37cb0@mcneil.com> References: <1c347c3282b5a66df40546b54cc37cb0@mcneil.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:02, Sean McNeil wrote: > I've also seen a core dump on a recompile attempt for howl (port that > has mDNSResponder). It wasn't repeatable, so I thought my system had > memory issues. After some reboots and testing, I've found that the > above aborts are consistent and not memory related. signal 6 is almost invariably caused by the process calling abort() - ie it's shooting itself in the head because some expectation it had has been violated. I'd check log messages (if the programs generate them..) The big hammer approach would be to just rebuild the broken apps and see if that fixes it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCEaaT5ZPcIHs/zowRAqMlAJwIuEPN+pvxnaBctQ6S/utaEokRBwCeNKE1 JH73Vl38nDIjxDTEC6Fj5xM= =RyGs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200502151806.51203.doconnor>