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From: Paul Allenby <pallenby@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Signal 11's..
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"Thomas Str”mberg (Nobody) wrote:"
> On my FreeBSD-testing machine, I've been having problems installing the
> 0812, 0813, and 0815 SNAP's (no problem with 2.2.2-RELEASE, 0618 SNAP, or
> 0731 SNAP, at least during the install). Over an FTP install, it seems to
> suddenly stop in random spots, with Write (-1 of 1024 bytes) and other odd
> errors. I'll have to re-enable debug to give you a more technical post, but
> this is what it says in the "emergency shell" window (debug not enabled):
> 
> DEBUG: FTP Shutdown called. OpenConn = 1e94d0
> DEBUG: Signal 11 Caught - that's bad!
> 
> This is from an FTP server inside the lan (tried using both IIS and WarFTPD
> on two servers).
> 
> If relevant:
> 
> Kernel Enabled: 3C509 (10/340), SysCon, Floppy, both IDE selections.
> Packages Selected: bin, doc, ports, man (has crashed in both bin, doc)
> Hardware: AMD K5/133 (166+), 3C509 Ethernet, S3 video.
> 

We had a very similar problem here at one stage. We traced it down to
two machines running Windoze and very old versions of Winsock. That version
of Winsock would close TCP connections between other machines.
Probably that's not the cause of what you're seeing, though?

Paul