From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 7 09:10:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA28274 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gershwin.tera.com (gershwin.tera.com [207.224.230.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28248 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:10:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (tao.tera.com [207.108.223.55]) by gershwin.tera.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22811; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:10:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id JAA12935; Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:10:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199808071610.JAA12935@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 page fault (Prev: Re: 2.2.7 crash) In-Reply-To: <000101bdc1dc$4f08bae0$0a00a8c0@uptight.student.utwente.nl> from laurens van alphen at "Aug 7, 98 10:20:59 am" To: lva@dds.nl (laurens van alphen) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 09:10:06 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to laurens van alphen: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > > today i got the same error when the box was pretty idle: > > > fault virtual address = 0x12a > > fault code = supervisor read, page not present > > intstruction pointer = 0x8:0xf01182b7 > > stack pointer = 0x10:0xefbffb5c > > frame pointer = 0x10:0xefbffb7c > > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > > = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > > current process = 11 (fsck) > > interupt mask = > > panic: page fault > > those address might have been different, i can't read THAT quickly ;) > > > syncing disks... 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 giving up > > it probably did that correctly though... > this is our first freebsd box (2.2.7) and has been runnin' in an testenv. > for a few weeks now. > When I was running 2.2.5 I had inconsistant page faults upon trying to reboot after a crash (power failure or whatever). fsck always cleaned my three disks and eventually I rebooted. With 2.2.6 there were fewer page faults ... until this latest snafu. This time the trouble is absolutely consistant. Hardware or software...?? gary > -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message