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From: Edwin Culp <edwinlculp@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Signal 6's with ruby apps such as portupgrade and pkg
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--- Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Monday, January 12, 2004 14:15:34 -0800 Doug
> White 
> <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Culp wrote:
> >
> >> I'm seeing signal 6's  with ruby apps such as
> pkgdb
> >> and portupgrade also with gaim-0.75, mkisofs. 
> I'm
> >> seeing signal 11's with kdm.  This is with
> today's
> >> world and kernel.  I also got a signal 15 on
> syslogd
> >> but I was able to start it without a problem
> after the
> >> machine came up to multiuser.
> >
> > Sig15 is pretty normal on a shutdown as its the
> normal SIGTERM.  Sig6 is
> > SIGABRT and is usually caused by a serious (but
> detected) program problem.
> > Sig11 is more serious, usually a program bug, but
> can be caused by bad
> > memory or system temperature issues.
> FWIW, I upgraded (with portupgrade) gaim from
> 0.74_3(IIRC) to 0.75, and 
> started getting SIGABRT/SIGSEGV (SIG 6/SIG 11) from
> it.
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke had me:
> 
> ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf
> 
> which seems to get around a malloc(3) bug in gaim
> 0.75.
> 
> Just my $0.02.

Thanks, Larry.  It worked for me.  I have no idea why
but I did a quick check with vnc and it worked.  That
is what it's all about :-)

Thanks again,

ed

> 
> LER
> 
> 
> -- 
> Larry Rosenman                    
> http://www.lerctr.org/~ler
> Phone: +1 972-414-9812                 E-Mail:
> ler@lerctr.org
> US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX
> 75044-6749
> 

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