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Date:      Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:37:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kulp <dkulp@neomorphic.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Everything seg faults -- how to diagnose?
Message-ID:  <199809142237.PAA13869@board66.cruzers.com>

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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

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