From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 20 08:15:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08316 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 08:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (ppp0.lariat.org@[129.72.251.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA08309; Tue, 20 May 1997 08:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solo.lariat.org ([129.72.251.10]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00279; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:15:24 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970520054232.006daec0@lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@lariat.org (Unverified) Disposition-Notification-To: X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 05:42:32 -0600 To: bugs@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Help! 2.2.2-R Crashing! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Help! Had initial success with FreeBSD 2.2.2-R, and so upgraded one of our main servers to it. But last night, the server just went catatonic (no error message, just a crash) and hung. Then, this morning, the server crashed with the following message on the screen: --------------- Fatal trap 26: segment not present fault while in kernel mode instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf016ab85 stack pointer = 0x10:0xf018c000 frame pointer = 0x10:0x0 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 = Idle interrupt mask = panic: segment not present fault syncing disks... 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 giving up Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... ---------------- Whereupon it didn't reboot but hung instead. We were very lucky that no files were lost due to the failure to sync, and that there was someone physically present to reboot it. The machine will have to run unattended over Memorial Day Weekend. Does anyone know the source of this instability or how to fix it? --Brett Glass