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Date:      Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:23:52 -0500
From:      "Sagara Wijetunga" <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD child process die for root
Message-ID:  <20090702012352.17934.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090701174930.GC37269@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <20090701070409.7740.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> <20090701174930.GC37269@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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Roland Smith writes:=20

> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:04:09AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>> Hi =20
>>=20
>> I'm Sagara Wijetunga from Tomahawk Computers from Singapore, makers of =
the=20
>> Tomahawk Desktop, a FreeBSD based desktop operating system=20
>> (http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/) which is free for personal use. =20
>>=20
>> Ever since we upgraded our Tomahawk Core OS to the FreeBSD 7.2 sources=
, we=20
>> experienced a strange issue as follows: =20
>>=20
>>    1. The root cannot login from the console, child process forked die =
with=20
>> =E2=80=9Cuid 0: exited on signal 11=E2=80=9D.
>>    2. Normal users can log in, no issue.
>>    3. Normal users can type =E2=80=9Csu=E2=80=9D and become root, but =
=E2=80=9Csu -l=E2=80=9D=20
>> results child process forked die with =E2=80=9Cuid 0: exited on signal =
11=E2=80=9D.
>>    4. The /var/log/messages shows =E2=80=9C(cron), uid 0: exited on si=
gnal 11=20
>> (core dumped)=E2=80=9D=20
>=20
> Based on your symptoms, it looks like something in the restart commands
> file for root causes the shell to crash...=20
>=20
> What shell are you using for root?=20
>=20

Hi Roland, thank you for the reply.=20

I have tested with bash, sh and csh. It seems the child process forked=20
simply die irrespective of the shell.=20

There  is no change in the dot files for root:
[root@tds sagara]# diff /root/.cshrc /usr/src/etc/root/dot.cshrc
[root@tds sagara]# diff /root/.login /usr/src/etc/root/dot.login
[root@tds sagara]# diff /root/.profile /usr/src/etc/root/dot.profile=20

Here is the log message for "su -l":
Jul  2 12:38:17 tds kernel: pid 943 (su), uid 0: exited on signal 11=20

Btw, what is "restart commands file for root"?=20

Regards
Sagara



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