From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 16 13:49:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA27716 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:49:01 -0700 Received: from elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (elf.kendall.mdcc.edu [147.70.150.122]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA27710 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:48:57 -0700 Received: (from freelist@localhost) by elf.kendall.mdcc.edu (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA01628; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:41:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:41:04 -0400 (EDT) From: "Don's FList drop" To: questions Subject: Re: Exit on signal 12 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Aug 1995, Don's FList drop wrote: > I'm running Uniboard here... or at least trying to. I think this > component may have been compiled under 2.0 and something has changes in > 2.0.5R that caused this break - it runs long enough to print the startup > tag, then exits on signal 12. If I read sys/signal.h correctly, this > indicates a bad argument to a system call. > I've written the author, but I know he's not primarily a FreeBSD guy - > any ideas what system call arguments changed from 2.0 to 2.0.5? (Pardon > if this is a stupendously stupid question) For the benefit of anyone running Uniboard on FreeBSD: Garrett gave me a nudge about the real meaning of this message (Unimplemented call, not bad argument to...) and it spurred me to think about what I know about the way the software works. The solution was to rebuild the kernel with SysV interprocess communication flags. (options SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, SYSVMSG) Pizzi apparently didn't realize they weren't enabled by default (were they in 1.1.5? I don't have a machine running that anymore. The April 2.0 snapshot didn't have them...) I've encouraged Pizzi to put a README.FREEBSD in his distribution with this little tidbit, but just in case anyone is reading here....