Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:53:50 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/sh core dumps on FreeBSD 7.2 Message-ID: <20091112115350.GA18542@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20091112103308.GA2536@hiMolde.no> References: <20091112103308.GA2536@hiMolde.no>
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:33:08AM +0100, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote:
> Suddenly /bin/sh started to crash all the time with core dumps. I'm
> running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 (i386) and I have not updated anything
> lately. The /bin/sh binary seems to be untouched. It might be some
> hardware trouble, but the machine seems to run OK now. (I had to
> replace /bin/sh with a symlink to /rescue/sh.)
>
> I would like to track down the problem, but running sh I only get
> "Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)". I would be happy to run
> gdb and give you a backtrace. Any clues?
>
> PS! I tried to run "freebsd-update IDS" to see if any files are
> broken, but it stops at
> Inspecting system... sha256: ///boot/kernel/utopia.ko.symbols: Input/output error
Hardware problem. Take your pick: bad RAM, bad hard disk, bad
motherboard, bad PSU, bad cabling.
You can rule out hard disk problems by installing smartmontools from
ports (sysutils/smartmontools). Please provide output from the
following command:
smartctl -a /dev/{disk}
Where {disk} is "ad4", "da0", or similar -- and NOT something like
"ad8s1" or "da0s1d".
If multiple disks are in your machine -- the one you want is the
disk you boot from (where /boot exists, and/or root filesystem).
I can teach you how to decode/read SMART statistics correctly.
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