Re: (CRON) DEATH (can't fork)

[Rafal Boni <rafal%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 03:36:42PM +0000, raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost 
wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:35:20 -0500
> matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:13 AM,  <raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost> wrote:
> > > $ uname -a
> > > NetBSD ultra10 5.0_BETA NetBSD 5.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Tue Feb  3
> > > 21:25:22 GMT 2009
> > > root@p3smp:/opt/obj.sparc64/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC sparc64
> > >
> > > My /var/log/cron.log file is filled with the following lines:
> > >
> > > Feb  3 22:53:17 ultra10 cron[397]: (CRON) DEATH (can't fork)
> > > Feb  8 11:46:38 ultra10 cron[402]: (CRON) DEATH (can't fork)
> > > Feb  9 10:54:43 ultra10 cron[343]: (CRON) DEATH (can't fork)
> > >
> > > Once the system has booted multiuser and I manually run
> > >
> > > /etc/rc.d/cron start
> > >
> > > then cron starts without problems.

I've seen this on my V100 occasionally, and maybe once on the T1 as well,
but I could never reproduce it at will (well, I didn't try that hard since
it requires rebooting and doesn't happen every time).

The ktrace looks strange, it's probably worth staring at a bit... a SIGHUP
is kinda strange at that point, even if everything else looks as it should.

--rafal

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