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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:32:33 -0600
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>, Edwin Culp <edwinlculp@yahoo.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Signal 6's with ruby apps such as portupgrade and pkg
Message-ID:  <39970000.1073946753@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040112141417.F54897@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20040112151839.49139.qmail@web13008.mail.yahoo.com> <20040112141417.F54897@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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--On Monday, January 12, 2004 14:15:34 -0800 Doug White=20
<dwhite@gumbysoft.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Culp wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing signal 6's  with ruby apps such as pkgdb
>> and portupgrade also with gaim-0.75, mkisofs.  I'm
>> seeing signal 11's with kdm.  This is with today's
>> world and kernel.  I also got a signal 15 on syslogd
>> but I was able to start it without a problem after the
>> machine came up to multiuser.
>
> Sig15 is pretty normal on a shutdown as its the normal SIGTERM.  Sig6 is
> SIGABRT and is usually caused by a serious (but detected) program =
problem.
> Sig11 is more serious, usually a program bug, but can be caused by bad
> memory or system temperature issues.
FWIW, I upgraded (with portupgrade) gaim from 0.74_3(IIRC) to 0.75, and=20
started getting SIGABRT/SIGSEGV (SIG 6/SIG 11) from it.

Joe Marcus Clarke had me:

ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf

which seems to get around a malloc(3) bug in gaim 0.75.

Just my $0.02.

LER


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