From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 21 09:58:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA24233 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:58:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts10-line11.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24227 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:58:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA01298; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:58:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:58:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jan.Vedeler@student.unisg.ch cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 2.2.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Jul 1997 Jan.Vedeler@student.unisg.ch wrote: > I cant locate the problem, but if I f.ex. run MC and try to get info from > the disk (F9 - I) I get the message "pid 507(mc), uid 0: exited on signal > 11 - segmentation fault". Then the system start to act cracy. Where is this? There isn't a system utility called 'mc' as far as I can find, at least in versions < 2.2.2. If it crashes and thus causes the system to crash, perhaps you shouldn't be using it? :) > What I can find in this situation is that the rc.conf-file starts to be > corrupted. It looks like as if all comments in the rc.conf duplicates - > "the file starts to grow" - more or less every time I do something. And at > the end it is finally corrupt - and some strange behavior comes up during > booting. There is also a backup of the rc.conf - rc.conf.previous, but this > will of course also go nuts if this "duplication" has been done 2 times. This sounds like some filesystem corruption. Run fsck -y on all your filesystems to make sure they're clear. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo