FreeBSD child process die for root

[Roland Smith]

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?

Roland
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