From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 21:15:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8A437B564 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu) Received: from c3po.lpl.arizona.edu (c3po.LPL.Arizona.EDU [128.196.64.189]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D363132E1 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:14:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jbarnes@localhost) by c3po.lpl.arizona.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA68045; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:15:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu) Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:15:22 -0700 (MST) From: Jason Barnes To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Brett Taylor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Railroad Tycoon II In-Reply-To: <20000216224855.B461@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Unfortunately this really is all it says. That and "(core > > dumped)". Not a terribly useful error. > > check /var/log/messages, it may have a clue. I think I've seen things like > "foo (pid 123) tried to use nonexistent BAR", but I may be imagining things > again. /var/log/messages contains the following: Feb 16 22:06:12 /kernel: pid 632 (rt2), uid 1001: exited on signal 12 (core dumped) What's a signal 12? Is there a list, somewhere, on what the different signal errors are? They come up every once in a while and are, of course, entirely cryptic without the secret decoder ring :) > [linux_base version] > > I'm not entirely certain of this, I only installed the system on > > this machine about a month ago so I assume my version isn't TOO ancient. > > How should I go about determining this? > > ls /var/db/pkg | grep linux_base Ah, great. I'm running linux_base ver. 5.2 . I hope that this additional info helps illuminate my problem. Though I suppose I'm not terribly optimistic. . . Is there any other way I can find out more about what its doing? - Jason /---------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Jason Barnes | |U of A LPL Box#238 A real person has two reasons for doing anything: | |Tucson, AZ 85721 a good reason, and the real reason. | |(520) 327 - 8483 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------------/ PGP public key can be obtained at http://c3po.lpl.arizona.edu/pgpkey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message