Kernel Core Dumping

[Subhro]

On 6/18/2005 23:40, J T wrote:

>Just an update on this, everything has been fine since I deleted the
>file. No more crashes.
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>Strange.
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>-JT
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>On 6/14/05, J T <jtrask at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around
>>3:00am with the following test in the messages log file:
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>>Jun 14 03:02:28 taco kernel: pid 7174 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal 11
>>(core dumped)
>>
>>I tracked it down to cvsup. I run it every night at 3:00am, the
>>following is the log file that I make it create:
>>
>>===update-os started by root on  at Mon Jun 13 03:01:00 2005===
>>Connected to cvsup.ca.freebsd.org
>>Updating collection src-all/cvs
>>TreeList failed: Error in
>>"/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_3": 37510:
>>File is truncated.  Delete it and try again.
>>===update-os started by root on  at Tue Jun 14 03:01:00 2005===
>>Connected to cvsup.ca.freebsd.org
>>Updating collection src-all/cvs
>>TreeList failed: Error in
>>"/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_3": 37510:
>>File is truncated.  Delete it and try again.
>>
>>The following is the 'update-os' script I made:
>>
>>echo "===update-os started by $USER on $HOST at `date +%c`===" >>
>>/usr/local/etc/cvsup/log/update-os.log
>>#!/bin/sh
>>echo "Updating OS sources with cvsup..."
>>/usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/local/etc/cvsup/supfile.os >>
>>/usr/local/etc/cvsup/log/update-os.log
>>
>>The supfile.os:
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>>*default host=cvsup.ca.freebsd.org compress
>>*default release=cvs
>>*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
>>*default prefix=/usr
>>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>>*default tag=RELENG_5_3
>>src-all
>>
>>I decided to rm the file
>>'/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_5_3' just to
>>see if that fixed it. And it did, but why was it crashing the entire
>>box?
>>
>>--
>>---------
>>jtrask at gmail.com
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I strongly feel that you need to check for BAD RAM modules.

Regards
S.