Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:17:07 -0500 From: "Sagara Wijetunga" <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD child process die for root Message-ID: <20090702041707.19651.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> In-Reply-To: <20090702062738.GA58158@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090701070409.7740.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> <20090701174930.GC37269@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090702012352.17934.qmail@us1.tomahawkonline.net> <20090702062738.GA58158@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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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
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