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From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MAJOR HELP WANTED
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:02:46 -0800
Organization: Applied Physics Lab
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Ricky Chan wrote:
>
> Any user, priviledge or non-privilage can reset the machine if they run a
> perl script
> that has no faults on it, or trys to make a c program from source the
> machine
> sometimes RESETS!!!!!!
>
> That should not happen at all!!!
>
> I am running freebsd 2.1.6 on a P166 using perl 5.0003 for perl scripts
> (although it happens also with making C programs).
>
(1) Give us a desription of the hardware. Try dmesg.
(2) Build a kernel with debugging enabled. You do this by
including "options DDB" in the kernel config file. See
/sys/i386/conf/LINT.
(3) When the machine tries to reset itself, it should drop into
the debugger. Give us the backtrace.
--
Steve
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