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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!nntp.primenet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: kernel error Date: 17 Sep 1996 19:31:28 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <51mqq0$154@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960916094613.19330A-100000@nancy.soncom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Patrick Sonnek (psonnek@soncom.com) wrote: : in /var/log/messages, I've gotten the followin message a couple of : times. I can find no documentation as to what a signal 4 is my best : guess is that is is a SIGILL. can anyone point in the right direction : for this, and if it is SIGILL, how can I fix this problem. : /kernel: pid 19061: ppp: uid 0: exited on signal 4 : How right you are. Man signal will tell you that this also dumps core. Have a look around for your core (ppp.core) and run gdb on it - see where it's dumping. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....