hours. The panic's soon followed: Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: [2002/07/25 07:40:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(38) =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: [2002/07/25 07:40:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(39) =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in pid 14293 (2.2.4) =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: Please read the file BUGS.txt in the distribution =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: [2002/07/25 07:40:26, 0] lib/fault.c:fault_report(41) =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: [2002/07/25 07:40:26, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(1092) =20 Jul 25 07:40:26 10.17.0.1 smbd[14293]: PANIC: internal error =20 Note that this isn't the same PID... I can't seem to couple a crashing instance with the other log message. Perhaps it's a parent process SEGVing and these are child processes, or vice versa. (although I see a lot more than 2 processes spewing the PDC related messages, and a lot more than 2 panic'ing, odd.) Thanks, Nir. -- Nir Soffer -=3D- Software Engineer, Exanet Inc. -=3D- "Father, why are all the children weeping? / They are merely crying son O, are they merely crying, father? / Yes, true weeping is yet to come" -- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Weeping Song>=20