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From: scotte@center.uscs.com (L. Scott Emmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login)
Date: 29 Nov 1995 19:11:49 GMT
Organization: U.S. Computer Services Research Center, El Dorado Hills, CA
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Message-ID: <SCOTTE.95Nov29111150@odie.center.uscs.com>
References: <MATHEZER.95Nov29084849@feisal.newera.ab.ca> <DItE9M.E2q@ritz.mordor.com>
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To: mathezer@newera.ab.ca
In-reply-to: ritz@ritz.mordor.com's message of Wed, 29 Nov 1995 17:08:10 GMT

In article <DItE9M.E2q@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes:

> Stephen Mathezer (mathezer@newera.ab.ca) wrote:
> 
> : whenever it comes up, login will die with a sig 11 and sometimes cron will
> : as well while I am trying to log in. 
> 
> According to the FAQ on http://www.freebsd.org/, a sig 11 is often
> a sign of hardware problems.

Are you running NIS? I had this same problem when my "groups" NIS map
had long lines. I reported this as a bug, but never heard anything
back from the FreeBSD folks.

-Scott
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