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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP terminated on SIGNAL 13
Date: 9 Jun 1997 10:19:34 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <EBE28n.E1u@xs.use.ch>,
	borki@xs.use.ch (Reto Burkhalter) writes:
> Hy Everyone
> 
> A dummy question: What does it mean, when ppp quits with
> signal 13?
> I had this twice in the past few days (ppp.log):
> 
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] LCP: LayerDown
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] OsLinkdown: aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] Phase: Terminate
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] LCP: SendTerminateReq.
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] LCP: state change Opend --> Closing
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] LCP: Received Terminate Ack (2) state = Closing (4)
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] LCP: state change Closing --> Closed
> 06-07 02:03:43 [11976] LCP: LayerFinish
> 06-07 02:03:44 [11976] Phase: Dead
> 06-07 02:03:56 [11976] Signal 13, hangup.
> 06-07 02:03:57 [11976] PPP Terminated.
> 
> (aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd was my real IP :-) )
> 
> Any ideas?

A signal 13 is SIGSEGV - a scribble in real terms.
If you're getting this frequently, you could try running with a
later version from http://www.freebsd.org/~brian, or even better,
get the current 2.2/3.0 sources.

If it still happens, I'd be interested in more details.

> Reto

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !