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From: Stephen Mathezer <mathezer@newera.ab.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:07:43 -0700
Organization: New Era Systems Services
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On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, L. Scott Emmons wrote:

> 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
> 

I don't think it is hardware problems because  this machine has been 
running successfully for 6 months.  However, it is an NIS client and our 
master change on the day it crashed.  We moved the master from an AIX 
machine to Unixware (and then back when we screwed up).  Yup, I just 
checked we do have a very long line in the NIS group file.

So, two questions:

Will it just 'start working again' if I shorten that line?
If not, what do I have to do get back up and running?

Thanks for the help

-Steve