From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 16 10:29:18 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DBA0EA98 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 10:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x233.google.com (mail-ig0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA58514CC for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 10:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbsb11 with SMTP id sb11so16501907igb.0 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:29:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=VPKQG0IBcflK3ZBreA2awqv5rAp/t7JxSuM/cFv2zf4=; b=UMiSQBLSWEA+d8NodyxeIsJiUNucexjz4uJsrJOwFb5SkkhOWsijvwS7m+w69pYj6C 6h6FALNFI4hqmAaRIm6pVILUUYy6T9JMZKUIEWbk4aPlAQl7DidQHZEFcmTx6cX1DPtB +gNJNKVIQUPYxruYMTeSdCfNVyxdPO4ERDnsdi0jMqxi9kCO2cmQWB0AeuskgjYywpEB py5XcE68gDqvhiFzpMMSPX6Er1NqXK2TPYGQPiLfs16HQBS409REyHKAGyYGKFqOPpYX LkGXTs+GLDx+GcSatPCiGWhu666NWvS3Cfmeh84esC+CiLVzBPgAmNxmNl4Fy6tjRoPB ItwQ== X-Received: by 10.50.59.211 with SMTP id b19mr3398248igr.42.1431772158227; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:29:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.121.1 with HTTP; Sat, 16 May 2015 03:28:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Avinash Sonawane Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 15:58:57 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: kernel: pid #n (vmmouse_detect), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 10:29:18 -0000 Hello all! Recently I have noticed a strange thing with my system. Every time I log on to my system I find a line like "kernel: pid #n (vmmouse_detect), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped)" where #n is an integer just before the "login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0" in /var/log/messages Here is my /var/log/messages http://pastebin.com/PHrn5NQD `man vmmouse_detect` says: "vmmouse_detect is a tool for detecting if running in a VMware environ-ment where vmmouse is used. It exits with a 0 return value if the vmmouse client is enabled, and 1 if not." So why vmmouse_detect is dumping the core on each login instead of returning 1 or 0? BTW I don't remember setting any startup script for vmmouse_detect. I have xorg installed though. So if starting vmmouse_detect on boot is importnat for xorg to function properly (which I presume as I haven't configured vmmouse_detect to start on boot and I think xorg has), how do I make vmmouse_detect to exit cleanly. i.e. without dumping the core? -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com