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From: darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login)
Date: 29 Nov 1995 17:26:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Center for Primal Scream Therapy
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Stephen Mathezer (mathezer@newera.ab.ca) wrote:

> I have a 2.0.5 machine that has been running for quite awhile with no
> problems.  It crashed the other day (I don't know how, somebody else did
> it and can't tell me anything about what messages they saw) and now
> whenever it comes up, login will die with a sig 11 and sometimes cron will
> as well while I am trying to log in. 

     Intermittent signal 11s are often a sign of bad hardware (e.g., bad
cache, bad memory, bad motherboard, etc.).

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com

DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the
little green men that have been following him all day.