From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 5 08:43:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA15418 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 08:43:48 -0800 Received: from feisal.newera.ab.ca (feisal.newera.ab.ca [198.161.82.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA15404 for ; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 08:43:35 -0800 Received: by feisal.newera.ab.ca (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA225131688; Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:41:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Dec 1995 09:41:28 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Mathezer To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ypbind causes login & cron to Sig 11 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk A little history: I had a FreeBSD 2.0.5 system running happily for about six months with an AIX machine as an NIS server. One day I wanted to move the NIS master function over to a Unixware machine. This didn't work for many reasons and I reverted to the AIX. In the process a long line got added to /etc/groups (don't know if this is relevant). The FreeBSD machine blew up (I don't know how, I wasn't there) and when it came back up, login and cron die on sig 11s. I can boot single user no problem and if I don't start ypbind things work perfectly. As soon as ypbind is started, login and cron break. If I kill it, they're fine. I re-installed all of usr, bin and sbin by simply tarring over the current installation from the bindist over NFS. This made no differnce. This means to me that no libraries or binaries got hosed. So, the question is what the hell got broken? The culprit must be in var or etc as far as I can tell. Remember, this machine worked beautifully prior to this crash and I have since replaced the kernel, all binaries and libraries to no avail. Oh yeah, if I start ypbind, login and cron die but ypcat works fine. Login sig 11's even logging in as root too so its not like it's using NIS. Also, removing the long line from /etc/groups made no difference. Any ideas or am I going to have to re-install completely? Thanks -Steve