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From: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login)
Date: 30 Nov 1995 14:35:37 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <49kffp$pdi@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951129125916.8179A-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca>
Reply-To: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (Stefan Petri)
NNTP-Posting-Host: achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de

>> > : whenever it comes up, login will die with a sig 11 and sometimes cron will
>> > : as well while I am trying to log in. 

>> Are you running NIS? I had this same problem when my "groups" NIS map
>> had long lines. I reported this as a bug, but never heard anything
>> back from the FreeBSD folks.

>However, it is an NIS client and our master change on the day it crashed.

>Will it just 'start working again' if I shorten that line?

To test if the reason is really a bad YP entry: boot single user, 
invoke cron / su / csh / ls by hand - those should work normally.
Then start the ypbind daemon, and again invoke those commands - if they
dump core now, you found the culprit. I had the similar problem, caused by 
an empty(!) line in the YP group map, that caused initgroups() to
crash.

Hope this helps,					Stefan