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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!news.simplex.nl!xs1!rob From: rob@xs1.simplex.nl (Rob Simons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Segmentatin fault only as root ?! Date: 20 Mar 1996 11:50:18 GMT Organization: SimpleX Networking Amsterdam Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4iordq$312@news.simplex.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: xs1.simplex.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I'm suffering from a new problem since I installed FreeBSD 2.1 on new hardware. 'finger' produces fine output, no problems, 'finger <user>' produces a Segmentation fault. 'finger -m <user>' produces fine output .. ?! ALl three methods performed as any ordinary user produce fine output, only root gives the above result. 'top' gives a Segmentation fault when executed as root, all other users can run it fine. Get it ? I don't. Also at starup I get the following obscure message: Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 /kernel: execve: failed to allocate string space Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 /kernel: execve: failed to allocate string space Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttydi: No such process Mar 19 20:31:24 xs1 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttydh: No such process Maybe these problems are connected ? Nothing seems wrong later on, and I can normally use these ttyd ports. If anyone has any ideas where to look or perhaps knows the answer, please let me know. The hardware is a brand new Zappa motherboard, with a Pentium120 processor and 32Mb memory. All devices are SCSI, connected to a AHA 2940 controller. The serial I/O is a Boca BB2016 board. - Rob. -- /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\ /* Rob Simons | rob@simplex.nl *\ /* ------------ | ------------- | -------- | ------- *\ /* Novell Netware System Operator | UNIX system operator *\ /*--------------------------------------------------------------*\