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To: "Bill Harrison" <bill@mis.ashrae.org>
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 18:34:13 -0800
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>What causes a message from the kernel - exit on signal 11
>The book says signal 11 is a segmentation fault. But should I be looking for
>a hardware memory problem or was there a problem in the software that was
>running.?

   It indicates that a program dereferenced a bad (usually NULL) pointer. It's
usually caused by a programming error, but could indicate a hardware problem
if it occurs randomly.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project