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From: "Sagara Wijetunga" <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg>
To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:17:07 -0500
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD child process die for root
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Roland Smith writes: 

>> 
>> I have tested with bash, sh and csh. It seems the child process forked 
>> simply die irrespective of the shell. 
> 
> Ok, so it's probably not a shell problem
>  
>> There  is no change in the dot files for root:
>> [root@tds sagara]# diff /root/.cshrc /usr/src/etc/root/dot.cshrc
>> [root@tds sagara]# diff /root/.login /usr/src/etc/root/dot.login
>> [root@tds sagara]# diff /root/.profile /usr/src/etc/root/dot.profile 
> 
> /root/.login executes the fortune program. Can you su to root and then
> run '/usr/games/fortune -s'? 
> 

/root/.login is completely commented out. 

[root@tds sagara]# /usr/games/fortune -s
After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is,
indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. 

Different runs displays different messages. 


>> Here is the log message for "su -l":
>> Jul  2 12:38:17 tds kernel: pid 943 (su), uid 0: exited on signal 11 
> 
> It could be a hardware problem. Signal 11 can be a sign of bad memory.
> Can you reproduce the problem on multiple machines? 
> 

I have taken the hard disk out and fixed on different machines, the symptoms 
are still the same. So it may not be a hardware error. 

Regards
Sagara