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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!torn!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.ucalgary.ca!news.newera.ab.ca!feisal.newera.ab.ca!mathezer From: Stephen Mathezer <mathezer@newera.ab.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: 2.0.5 died. (Sig 11 on login) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 13:07:43 -0700 Organization: New Era Systems Services Lines: 35 Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.951129125916.8179A-100000@feisal.newera.ab.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: feisal.newera.ab.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <9511291911.AA25051@odie.center.uscs.com> On Wed, 29 Nov 1995, L. Scott Emmons wrote: > In article <DItE9M.E2q@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes: > > > Stephen Mathezer (mathezer@newera.ab.ca) wrote: > > > > : whenever it comes up, login will die with a sig 11 and sometimes cron will > > : as well while I am trying to log in. > > > > According to the FAQ on http://www.freebsd.org/, a sig 11 is often > > a sign of hardware problems. > > 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. > > -Scott > I don't think it is hardware problems because this machine has been running successfully for 6 months. However, it is an NIS client and our master change on the day it crashed. We moved the master from an AIX machine to Unixware (and then back when we screwed up). Yup, I just checked we do have a very long line in the NIS group file. So, two questions: Will it just 'start working again' if I shorten that line? If not, what do I have to do get back up and running? Thanks for the help -Steve