Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:31:18 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: What is fatal error 9 ? Message-ID: <199604230531.BAA04097@jbrann.dialup.access.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960422191438.1277D-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Apr 22, 96 07:15:24 pm"
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Doug White wrote... > On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Steve wrote: > > > > > My one box has been locking up periodically and today I had several > > errors on the screen (along with a lockup) - there was fatal error 9, and > > a general protection fault error. > > > > Any insight is appreciated! (mostly as to what an error 9 is) > > These are FreeBSD errors? I didn't know FreeBSD would GPF. Panic, yes; > GPF, no. That is a Windows thing, I thought. > > To answer the question: I don't know what an error 9 is. If you could > give some of the context that would be helpful. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > My reading of /usr/include/errno.h makes error 9 EBADF - bad file descriptor. Something like referring to a file which the program has already closed. Other things are possible - could a full file system cause this? As with all other errors, memory corruption can cause this, but it wouldn't be the first error I would expect. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key
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