From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 05:10:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA27603 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA27598 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:10:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA25212 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:25:05 GMT Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa11764; 23 Apr 96 8:07 EDT Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:07:39 -0400 (EDT) From: steve hovey To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is fatal error 9 ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, 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. So did I - but as God is my witness that is what the screen said. > > 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. The machine is a pentium 133 with 96MB ram, freebsd 2.1r and its running INN1.something - Its been fine for ages and then lately every day or two it hangs without an error message - cept sunday in which I had these blocks of error messages on the screen. Im wondering if I have a bad simm. I looked and there is no light on the scsi card - I thought maybe it was a scsi hang, but then the GPF and the error 9 which sounded like software errors makes me wonder if it isnt a weak simm - or could a corrupted binary do it you think?