From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 18 07:47:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA29928 for current-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 07:47:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA29917 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 07:47:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA29664 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:45:18 GMT Received: from tees by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:40:46 +0000 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees (SMI-8.6/8.6.12) id PAA04484 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:45:38 GMT Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:45:38 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199603181545.PAA04484@tees> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whee! Page Fault! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: JWks7ZrxE4Sv3/LpQCo2gA== Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > FYI > I just got a repeatable system freeze while doing (on a simtel cd-rom) > cd /cd/_/msdos/memutils > vi descript.ion > Curiously though this worked fine: > tar cvf - . | ( cd /usr3/tmp/memutil ; tar xf - ) > cd /usr3/tmp/memutil > vi descript.ion > I'm running current from maybe 6/8 weeks back. > I have no more detail to provide, sorry > (this err. was on my stable (no not `Stable') `good' system, > my other unstable `sick' freebsd box is consuming my free time, > so have no time to investigate) I had numerous hangs yesterday and two of them were certainly caused by my accessing the cdrom. In fact, accessing the cdrom froze the system every time but I'm not sure it's the only cause since I wasn't using the cdrom the first time it happened.