From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 17 20:03:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA19278 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:03:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA19269 for ; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA05398; Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:02:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 20:02:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: lpd problem (exiting on signal 11) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Oct 1996, Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0 in a DEC Venturis 590 (pentium 90 MHz) with 8 > MB RAM (I know... that's too small, but already tried increasing RAM to > 16MB without improvement). The problem is when I try to start a printer. > Immediatly, I get the following error: > > /kernel: pid xxx: lpd: uid 0: exited on signal 11 > > and a core dump is saved to the spooler directory. > > (nothing comes out at the printer, by the way) > > Any hints? Did you check your /etc/printcap for correctness? Have you tried replacing the lpd binary? It's dying too quickly to be a memory problem, and you'd see every other program sig11'ing too. > P.S. Anyone knows if there is any project of porting FreeBSD to the DEC > Alpha platform? I realy would love to throw away DEC OSF/1 :-) Long ago Terry Lambert was working on this, until the development machine disappeared. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major