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From: paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel error
Date: 24 Sep 1996 22:30:55 GMT
Organization: XCIV
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In article <51mqq0$154@anorak.coverform.lan>,
brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
[The following is directed anyone who might know]
>: /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.
Talking of ppp problems, I have a problem with the userland ppp (2.1.0-R).
Occasionally, when I get a failed connection to my ISP, ppp will just
lock at the dial ok stage and not timeout.
Now sometimes I can kill it successfully, other times I can kill -9 on it
and it will be unkillable. ps shows it's flags as IE (waiting for over
20 seconds and trying to exit).
The only wait out is to reboot the machine. Is there a known bug, would
getting the sources to a -current copy and compiling fix it?
I've just grabbed a copy of the ppp with masquerading, so I might try that
and see if it exhibits the same problem.
-Paul-
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