From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# echo $$ 10500 .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# bash .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# echo $$ 10926 .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# vmstat 1 &> /dev/null & [1] 10980 .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# kill 10980 Segmentation fault .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# echo $$ 10500 It's ia64 and AS2.1 specific and it isn't "kill" problem, because it happen with the "killall" command too. If you try same things with "zsh" it work as expected. It's real problem for administartors: .qa.[root@ia64-21as root]# kill 11045 Connection to ia64-21as.test.redhat.com closed. ... it destroys your session :-((( Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1... 2. 3. Additional info:
*** Bug 149103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this a regression since 2.1 release?
I've verified for myself that this is a regression since 2.1 release. Also, this is a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 147573 ***
*** Bug 151939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-206.html