On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 16:57:21 -0700 (PDT) 
 Ryan Ordway <rimsky@teleport.com> wrote:

 > > Um, that shouldn't make sshd, for instance, core-dump.  If that was
 > > happening, it dounds like (1) the device lookup code for /var/db/kvm.db is
 > > core-dumping or (2) kvm_mkdb was making a bogus file.  In either case, I
 > > think something is broken there, and I never really liked the Berkeley-DB
 > > format kvm.db.  :>
 > 
 > 	Yeah, kvm_mkdb dumped core first, which I am guessing is why the
 > others dumped core. If someone would like, I can put it up for anon ftp.

"Um, did you update your libc, and then boot an old kernel?"  You're
probably getting nailed by the fact that libc now uses pread(2) and
pwrite(2) in the DB routines, which would get kvm.db and pwd.db lookups.

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