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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel error
Date: 17 Sep 1996 19:31:28 +0100
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Patrick Sonnek (psonnek@soncom.com) wrote:

: in /var/log/messages, I've gotten the followin message a couple of 
: times.  I can find no documentation as to what a signal 4 is  my best 
: guess is that is is a SIGILL.  can anyone point in the right direction 
: for this, and if it is SIGILL, how can I fix this problem.



:  /kernel: pid 19061: ppp: uid 0: exited on signal 4 
: 	

How right you are.  Man signal will tell you that this also dumps core.
Have a look around for your core (ppp.core) and run gdb on it - see where
it's dumping.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....