Trap Held or Ignored

Trap Held or Ignored

You may see these messages:

unix: WARNING: Process ... generated trap, but has signal 11 held or ignored
unix: Process ... generated trap, but has signal 11 held or ignored

This message indicates that the process is an infinite loop, therefore the signal/trap message that followed was held or ignored.

This message is usually caused by a temporary "out of resources" condition or a bug in the program. If it is a resource issue, you should be able to execute the program again without seeing this message again. If the message reappears after executing the program, you might have encountered a bug in the program.