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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!worldnet.att.net!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MAJOR HELP WANTED Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:02:46 -0800 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 28 Message-ID: <32DFBEC6.41C67EA6@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <ricky-1701971420140001@194.207.66.18> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34156 Ricky Chan wrote: > > Any user, priviledge or non-privilage can reset the machine if they run a > perl script > that has no faults on it, or trys to make a c program from source the > machine > sometimes RESETS!!!!!! > > That should not happen at all!!! > > I am running freebsd 2.1.6 on a P166 using perl 5.0003 for perl scripts > (although it happens also with making C programs). > (1) Give us a desription of the hardware. Try dmesg. (2) Build a kernel with debugging enabled. You do this by including "options DDB" in the kernel config file. See /sys/i386/conf/LINT. (3) When the machine tries to reset itself, it should drop into the debugger. Give us the backtrace. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html