From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 30 17:05:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA24975 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:05:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA24968 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 17:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo.enc.edu (dingo.enc.edu [199.93.252.229]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA24679 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:04:57 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 20:05:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Signal 11 problem: sh dies, user's can't log in!! (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I posted what's below to freebsd-questions but haven't heard a peep yet. I seen stuff about Signal 11 troubles both here (freebsd-stable) and elsewhere, so I thought I'd repost here. Whadaya think? --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:20:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: questions list FreeBSD Subject: Signal 11 problem: sh dies, user's can't log in!! Welp, I'm back, with the problem of the week :-) . Several times, lately, my box that serves as email host and web server has been getting itself into a state where when a user logs in, sh dies with a signal 11. Sessions that are open before this state sets in remain fine, and I can still log in as _root_ and look around. Everything (swapspace, processes, etc.) seems fine, except for the signal 11 behavior. Sampe syslog output: Apr 29 16:38:41 itsdsv1 /kernel: pid 8739 (sh), uid 1154: exited on signal 11 The system can be up just fine for several days with no signs of trouble, and then, seemingly out of the blue, it happens. The only solution I've found thus far is to reboot. Not a happy thing for my users!! How should I proceed to track down the problem? Is it a kernel thing? I know that bad hardware can cause strange signals to show up, but I've built my system using "approved" (well, it's mentioned in the handbook) hardware. HELP! Some background about the system: running FreeBSD 2.1-stable (supped 3/16/96) Using NIS (almost 500 users), quotas Apache 1.0.2, popper, imapd Pine 3.93 w/patches from Guy Helmer ASUS P55TP4XE P100, 64 MB 60ns RAM, 512k PB cache Thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------