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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 19:49:31 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Sagara Wijetunga <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD child process die for root
Message-ID:  <20090701174930.GC37269@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20090701070409.7740.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net>
References:  <20090701070409.7740.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net>

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On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:04:09AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> Hi=20
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> I'm Sagara Wijetunga from Tomahawk Computers from Singapore, makers of th=
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> Tomahawk Desktop, a FreeBSD based desktop operating system=20
> (http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/) which is free for personal use.=20
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> Ever since we upgraded our Tomahawk Core OS to the FreeBSD 7.2 sources, w=
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> experienced a strange issue as follows:=20
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>    1. The root cannot login from the console, child process forked die wi=
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> =E2=80=9Cuid 0: exited on signal 11=E2=80=9D.
>    2. Normal users can log in, no issue.
>    3. Normal users can type =E2=80=9Csu=E2=80=9D and become root, but =E2=
=80=9Csu -l=E2=80=9D=20
> results child process forked die with =E2=80=9Cuid 0: exited on signal 11=
=E2=80=9D.
>    4. The /var/log/messages shows =E2=80=9C(cron), uid 0: exited on signa=
l 11=20
> (core dumped)=E2=80=9D=20

Based on your symptoms, it looks like something in the restart commands
file for root causes the shell to crash...

What shell are you using for root?

Roland
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