From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 15:37:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08606 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:37:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from blackie.cruzers.com (cruzers.com [205.215.232.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08582 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:37:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkulp@board66.cruzers.com) Received: from board66.cruzers.com (board66.cruzers.com [205.215.233.66]) by blackie.cruzers.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25996 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:58:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dkulp@localhost) by board66.cruzers.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id PAA13869; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:37:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809142237.PAA13869@board66.cruzers.com> From: David Kulp MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Everything seg faults -- how to diagnose? X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Last week I installed FBSD 2.2.7 on an IBM ThinkPad 365. I've got it running off-site and I'm logged in, compiling a port and suddenly every process seg faults, the build fails, and I'm unable to run anything except built-ins and a few commands like cat and ls from the shell. I've cat'd /var/log/messages and all it reports is that each program signal 11'd. As it turns out, I was trying to run 'configure' for ssh and it was trying some assembly language optimizations just when everything went kaplooey. What could be going on? Should I be looking anywhere else for diagnostics? This machine was running fine for about a week with httpd on it. (In fact httpd continued running OK -- but no new processes can start up, including any new shells!) After rebooting, everything seems OK, and re-running configure worked, but this is very worrisome. I urged my group to use FBSD, so my reputation is a bit on the line here. Your help would be appreciated. thanks, David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message