Hi Carel , we have got the same issue. the ENV is the same as u said. raised a tar already , sent the RDA output etc. waiting for reply now. i will let u know if there is any info from OSS. meanwhile , let me know if you get any useful updates from OSS. Regards, Prem. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carel-Jan Engel Hi All, At a site I am today for the first time we get this error. *** 2005-06-30 10:14:45.908 *** SESSION ID:(134.65095) 2005-06-30 10:14:45.907 Exception signal: 11 (SIGSEGV), code: 1 (Address not mapped to object), addr: 0xfdaf0000, PC: [0x2469e8, ksmarfg()+640] *** 2005-06-30 10:14:45.989 ksedmp: internal or fatal error ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [ksmarfg()+640] [SIGSEGV] [Address not mapped to object] [0xFDAF0000] [] [] It started a couple of days ago, and seems to occur more and more frequently. Version is 9.2.0.4.0, OS is SunOS 5.8 Google and metalink seem to be of no help. Any suggestions? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l