"Strange, wait returned pid 1075805752" error in authlog

[Jim Breton]

Aug 28 20:34:42 vader sshd[14806]: error: Strange, wait returned pid
1075805752, expected 14884
Aug 28 20:34:42 vader sshd[14806]: Disconnecting: Command terminated on
signal 4.

OS is OpenBSD 2.9, i386.

That error was generated when a user logged out.  This is the first time
I've seen this, but I notice I'm not the only one:

http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0106/msg00918.html


Fwiw here are the syslog entries from when that user logged in:

Aug 28 12:20:53 vader sshd[14806]: Accepted password for (user) from
171.78.112.20 port 1064
Aug 28 12:20:53 vader sshd[14806]: packet_set_maxsize: setting to 4096


Here is the accounting dump from the same time frame, dunno if it helps:

procmail   -       (user)                           __         0.08 secs
Tue Aug 28 20:35 (0:00:00.50)
bash       -S      (user)                           ttyp1      0.25 secs
Tue Aug 28 12:20 (8:14:44.00)
bash       -F      (user)                           ttyp1      0.02 secs
Tue Aug 28 20:34 (0:00:00.09)
tty        -       (user)                           ttyp1      0.02 secs
Tue Aug 28 20:34 (0:00:00.05)


(I wish process accounting recorded process IDs... sigh.)

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Jim B.
vader at conflict.net