Kernel Core Dumping

[J T]

Just an update on this, everything has been fine since I deleted the
file. No more crashes.

Strange.

-JT

On 6/14/05, J T <jtrask at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around
> 3:00am with the following test in the messages log file:
> 
> 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:
> 
> *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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