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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:33:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Bsd Neophyte <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: why does 'ssh-keygen -t dsa' cause a system reboot?
To: Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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--- Lee Harr <missive@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Every time?
> 

first, i mistyped, sorry... (cut and pasted the wrong thing)... i run
'ssh-keygen -t dsa'

and this doesn't happen all the time.  it happens about half the time i
try generating a keypair.

> How about when you do a long compile? (build a kernel or
> make world)
> 
> If it is not every time, and the same thing happens sometimes
> during a long build, I suspect hardware problems. (probably
> memory)

as far as i can remember, i've never had reboot issues with compiling the
kernel.

> 
> If it is only ssh-keygen, and it is every single time... hmm.
> 
> Maybe a corrupted ssh-keygen binary, or libcrypto or libc?
> If this is a fresh install from a CD, you might try re-installing
> (upgrading) the bin and crypto distributions.

is there any way to localize the exact cause of the reboot?


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