what is signal 12?

[Jerry]

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
FreeBSD.user at seibercom.net

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