Subject: illegal variable name error upon login
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@aydogan.de>
List: current-users
Date: 07/14/2007 22:51:42
Hello list,
I'm getting this error, but I don't know what causes it.
If I login (csh), the message "Illegal variable name" is printed.
Screenshot: http://aydogan.org/login/illegal_variable_name.png
I trussed it. The end looks like this:
435 1 csh ioctl(0x3, FIOCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __fstat30(0x3, 0xbfbfecf4) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfedbc, 0xbfbfedac) = 0
435 1 csh ioctl(0x3, TIOCGETA, 0xbfbfec70) Err#25 ENOTTY
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x3, 0xbfbfedac, 0) = 0
435 1 csh lseek(0x3, 0, 0, 0, 0x1) = 0
435 1 csh lseek(0x3, 0, 0, 0, 0x1) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x2, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh read(0x3, 0xbfbfbb5b, 0x1000) = 974
"#\t$NetBSD: dot.cshrc,v 1.16 2006/08/31 22:33:14 hubertf Exp $\n\nali"
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x2, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x2, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh close(0) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x13) = 0
435 1 csh ioctl(0, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x1) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x11) = 1
435 1 csh ioctl(0x1, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x2) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x12) = 2
435 1 csh ioctl(0x2, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x1) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x2) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x2, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh close(0) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x13) = 0
435 1 csh ioctl(0, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x1) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x11) = 1
435 1 csh ioctl(0x1, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x2) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x12) = 2
435 1 csh ioctl(0x2, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x1) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x2) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x2, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh close(0) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x13) = 0
435 1 csh ioctl(0, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x1) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x11) = 1
435 1 csh ioctl(0x1, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x2) Err#9 EBADF
435 1 csh dup(0x12) = 2
435 1 csh ioctl(0x2, FIONCLEX, 0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x1) = 0
435 1 csh close(0x2) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0, 0, 0x8068af8) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x2, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0xbfbfec88, 0) = 0
435 1 csh write(0x12, 0x806e800, 0x17) = 23
"Illegal variable name.\n"
435 1 csh lseek(0x3, 0, 0, 0, 0x2) = 974
435 1 csh __sigprocmask14(0x3#
and in fact, if I remove .cshrc, the error is gone.
if I switch to /bin/sh or ksh, the error is gone aswell.
Any ideas ?
Zafer.