process exiting strangeness under 5.2.1-RC2

I encountered this earlier today while getting familiar
with 5.2.1-RC2. It happened right after I CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE'd
out of KDE:

[12:51]jesse_at_trevarthan:[~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Feb 15 12:52:10 trevarthan kernel: pid 1566 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:10 trevarthan kernel: pid 1567 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:10 trevarthan kernel: pid 1568 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:11 trevarthan kernel: pid 1569 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:11 trevarthan kernel: pid 1570 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:11 trevarthan kernel: pid 1571 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:11 trevarthan kernel: pid 1572 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:12 trevarthan kernel: pid 1573 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:12 trevarthan kernel: pid 1574 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:12 trevarthan kernel: pid 1575 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:13 trevarthan kernel: pid 1576 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:13 trevarthan kernel: pid 1578 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:13 trevarthan kernel: pid 1579 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:13 trevarthan kernel: pid 1580 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:13 trevarthan kernel: pid 1581 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:14 trevarthan kernel: pid 1582 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
Feb 15 12:52:14 trevarthan kernel: pid 1583 (kdeinit), uid 1001: exited on signa
l 6 (core dumped)
^C
[12:52]jesse_at_trevarthan:[~]#

These messages continued forever on my primary console until I went to
single user mode. Stock kernel. Booting with hint.apic.0.disabled=1.

uname -a:

FreeBSD trevarthan.int.wingnet.net 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #0: Thu Feb 12 16:28:31 GMT 2004     root_at_wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

I've since been unable to reproduce the problem. Still, it stikes me as
rather bad that a process was looping on core dump. I've still got the
kdeinit.core if anyone is interested.

Any ideas?

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