On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 08:23:52PM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Roland Smith writes: > > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 02:04:09AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I'm Sagara Wijetunga from Tomahawk Computers from Singapore, makers of the > >> Tomahawk Desktop, a FreeBSD based desktop operating system > >> (http://www.tomahawkcomputers.com/) which is free for personal use. > >> > >> Ever since we upgraded our Tomahawk Core OS to the FreeBSD 7.2 sources, we > >> experienced a strange issue as follows: > >> > >> 1. The root cannot login from the console, child process forked die > >> with > >> “uid 0: exited on signal 11”. > >> 2. Normal users can log in, no issue. > >> 3. Normal users can type “su” and become root, but “su -l” > >> results child process forked die with “uid 0: exited on signal 11”. > >> 4. The /var/log/messages shows “(cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > >> (core dumped)” > > > > Based on your symptoms, it looks like something in the restart commands > > file for root causes the shell to crash... > > > > What shell are you using for root? > > > > Hi Roland, thank you for the reply. > > I have tested with bash, sh and csh. It seems the child process forked > simply die irrespective of the shell.
Ok, so it's probably not a shell problem > There is no change in the dot files for root: > [r...@tds sagara]# diff /root/.cshrc /usr/src/etc/root/dot.cshrc > [r...@tds sagara]# diff /root/.login /usr/src/etc/root/dot.login > [r...@tds sagara]# diff /root/.profile /usr/src/etc/root/dot.profile /root/.login executes the fortune program. Can you su to root and then run '/usr/games/fortune -s'? > Here is the log message for "su -l": > Jul 2 12:38:17 tds kernel: pid 943 (su), uid 0: exited on signal 11 It could be a hardware problem. Signal 11 can be a sign of bad memory. Can you reproduce the problem on multiple machines? > Btw, what is "restart commands file for root"? The "rc" in .shrc stands for restart commands. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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