Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:31:53 -0400 From: Jerry <freebsd.user@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is signal 12? Message-ID: <20100426123153.7d16043d@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20100426155956.GA20377@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100426153600.GA20233@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20100426114753.1589e059@scorpio.seibercom.net> <20100426155956.GA20377@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:59:57 +0100 Anton <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> articulated: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:47:53AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:36:00 +0100 > > Anton <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> articulated: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > I have an app which exits on signal 12. > > > What is this signal? > > > I can't find any reference to in the man > > > pages or on the net. > > > > Is this what you are looking for: > > > > $ man signal | grep -i 12 > > 12 SIGSYS create core image non-existent system call > > invoked > > yes, thank you. > > Would you also know what this mean then: > > Apr 26 16:37:45 mech-as28 kernel: pid 33752 (syscall), uid 1001: > exited on signal 12 Apr 26 16:37:45 mech-as28 kernel: pid 33757 > (syscall), uid 1001: exited on signal 12 Apr 26 16:37:45 mech-as28 > kernel: pid 33751 (syscall), uid 1001: exited on signal 12 > > Does this mean that the program, syscall in this case, > tried to invoke a system call which doesn't exist? > > Could this be because I'm running it on ia64, whereas it's > likely to have been written for i386/amd64? > > Just to clarify, I'm running stress2: > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/ > > on ia64 -current box. There is a link on that page to report problems with the test suite. Have you done so? You might need to run it under GDB or some other debugger. I am not familiar with this program. -- Jerry FreeBSD.user@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
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