ksh randomly crashes on login
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- ksh
Issue
- From time to time, when an user attempts to login,
kshwill crash, with a logged message like this:
Apr 15 07:24:25 server kernel: ksh[3398] general protection ip:452989 sp:7fffef834e00 error:0 in ksh93[400000+15b000]
Resolution
One of the most common cases is file system full.
This problem is being tracked at:
RHEL6
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212992
RHEL7
Root Cause
- If the server has no free disk space when logging in, ksh will crash while parsing
/etc/profile.
Diagnostic Steps
- If in
/var/log/messagesthere are messages in the patternNo space left on device, this is the likely cause ofkshcrashing.
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