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From: rws@cs.brown.edu (Richard W. Sabourin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: IDA Sendmail on Sun 4 panics ... any ideas?
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Date: 15 Sep 90 18:13:05 GMT
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Reply-To: rws@cs.brown.edu (Richard W. Sabourin)
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
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I have recently installed Sendmail 5.64+ w/ IDA on our central mail machine,
a Sun 4/360 running 4.1. (I don't have the IDA revision # on hand, but it
was just last month ftp'ed from uunet.) It compiled fine, and uses MX
records fine. The .cf file is rather a mishmash, but I debugged it and
it does what we want.

Anyway, this machine has recently begun panicking a couple times a week,
always at night (figures), with the following:

--------------------------------------------------
panic: Data fault
BAD TRAP
pid 2680, `sendmail': Data fault
kernel read fault at addr=0xf8238ff8, pme=0x0
Bus Error Reg 80<INVALID>
pc=0xf80a4074, sp=0xf8178558, psr=0x118018c3, context=0x0
g1-g7: 11001ae6, e30002e7, ffffffff, 6, f824b000, f8121000, f8121000
Begin traceback...

[etc.]
--------------------------------------------------

Sendmail is always listed as the culprit, and always a Bad Trap.
After these panics, mail delivery enters a weird failure mode, in which
mail to all local users bounces with "User unknown". Re-freezing the fc
file and restarting fixes this.

Anybody else seen either failure? Coincidence? Conspiracy? Don't worry, I'm
not one of those "Pls fix bug asap urg help thx" posters; just drawing a
blank.

Thanks in advance,
	Rick Sabourin
	Systems Slave