From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 07:37:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A554D16A4CE; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:37:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF24743D4C; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:36:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1F7auCW022747; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:06:56 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:06:50 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <1c347c3282b5a66df40546b54cc37cb0@mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <1c347c3282b5a66df40546b54cc37cb0@mcneil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3904047.N6pRA4huoP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502151806.51203.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.4 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Sean McNeil cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: few programs now getting sig 6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 07:37:00 -0000 --nextPart3904047.N6pRA4huoP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 shooting itself in the head because some expectation it had has been=20 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= =20 that fixes it :) =2D-=20 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 --nextPart3904047.N6pRA4huoP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCEaaT5ZPcIHs/zowRAqMlAJwIuEPN+pvxnaBctQ6S/utaEokRBwCeNKE1 JH73Vl38nDIjxDTEC6Fj5xM= =RyGs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3904047.N6pRA4huoP--