From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 12 00:00:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA03263 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA03226 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:00:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA08373; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 23:55:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd008370; Sun Oct 12 06:55:28 1997 Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 23:54:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Khetan Gajjar cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 2.2.2-RELEASE machine In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk AH HA! someone else getting this.. can you do nm -n /kernel and find out where the instruction pointer points? I have my suspicions. On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Khetan Gajjar wrote: > Hi. > > I have a 2.2.2-RELEASE machine which hangs or needs to be rebooted every > 20 to 30 days. This time, it at least left a panic message : is this the GENERIC kernel? > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > > fault virtual address = 0x4 > > fault code = supervisor write, page not present > > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf01b038c > > stack pointer = 0x10:0xefbffec4 > > frame pointer = 0x10:0xefbffef0 > > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > > processor eflags = resume, IOPL = 0 > > current process = Idle > > interrupt mask = net tty bio > > It's a 486 DX4/120 with 24 MB of RAM, and one 800MB IDE drive. > > Can anyone shed any light as to what the problem is ? I see the same on a 486DX4/75 (STS not Intel) also with ide diskdrive.. do you have a network? if so what driver? > > > --- > Khetan Gajjar - whois kg1779 | khetan@iafrica.com or khetan@os.org.za > http://chain.iafrica.com/~khetan | PGPKey : finger khetan@chain.iafrica.com > UUNET Internet Africa Support | FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org > Unix is user friendly; it's just selective about who it calls a friend! > >