what is signal 12?
Jerry
freebsd.user at seibercom.net
Mon Apr 26 16:32:02 UTC 2010
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:59:57 +0100
Anton <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> articulated:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:47:53AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:36:00 +0100
> > Anton <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> articulated:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have an app which exits on signal 12.
> > > What is this signal?
> > > I can't find any reference to in the man
> > > pages or on the net.
> >
> > Is this what you are looking for:
> >
> > $ man signal | grep -i 12
> > 12 SIGSYS create core image non-existent system call
> > invoked
>
> yes, thank you.
>
> Would you also know what this mean then:
>
> Apr 26 16:37:45 mech-as28 kernel: pid 33752 (syscall), uid 1001:
> exited on signal 12 Apr 26 16:37:45 mech-as28 kernel: pid 33757
> (syscall), uid 1001: exited on signal 12 Apr 26 16:37:45 mech-as28
> kernel: pid 33751 (syscall), uid 1001: exited on signal 12
>
> Does this mean that the program, syscall in this case,
> tried to invoke a system call which doesn't exist?
>
> Could this be because I'm running it on ia64, whereas it's
> likely to have been written for i386/amd64?
>
> Just to clarify, I'm running stress2:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/
>
> on ia64 -current box.
There is a link on that page to report problems with the test suite.
Have you done so? You might need to run it under GDB or some other
debugger. I am not familiar with this program.
--
Jerry
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