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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.gtn.com!news2.gtn.com!news.hamburg.pop.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de!tubsibr!petri From: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login) Date: 30 Nov 1995 14:35:37 GMT Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany Lines: 19 Distribution: world Message-ID: <49kffp$pdi@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951129125916.8179A-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca> Reply-To: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri) NNTP-Posting-Host: achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de >> > : whenever it comes up, login will die with a sig 11 and sometimes cron will >> > : as well while I am trying to log in. >> 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. >However, it is an NIS client and our master change on the day it crashed. >Will it just 'start working again' if I shorten that line? To test if the reason is really a bad YP entry: boot single user, invoke cron / su / csh / ls by hand - those should work normally. Then start the ypbind daemon, and again invoke those commands - if they dump core now, you found the culprit. I had the similar problem, caused by an empty(!) line in the YP group map, that caused initgroups() to crash. Hope this helps, Stefan