--On Monday, January 12, 2004 14:15:34 -0800 Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Edwin Culp wrote: > >> I'm seeing signal 6's with ruby apps such as pkgdb >> and portupgrade also with gaim-0.75, mkisofs. I'm >> seeing signal 11's with kdm. This is with today's >> world and kernel. I also got a signal 15 on syslogd >> but I was able to start it without a problem after the >> machine came up to multiuser. > > Sig15 is pretty normal on a shutdown as its the normal SIGTERM. Sig6 is > SIGABRT and is usually caused by a serious (but detected) program problem. > Sig11 is more serious, usually a program bug, but can be caused by bad > memory or system temperature issues. FWIW, I upgraded (with portupgrade) gaim from 0.74_3(IIRC) to 0.75, and started getting SIGABRT/SIGSEGV (SIG 6/SIG 11) from it. Joe Marcus Clarke had me: ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf which seems to get around a malloc(3) bug in gaim 0.75. Just my $0.02. LER -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler_at_lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749
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