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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is fatal error 9 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SCO.3.91.960423082104.14364M-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199604230337.NAA07851@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote:

> Doug White stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> GPF is an intel thing.  It's not very common under FreeBSD, but it can happen.
> It means that you are suffering memory corruption, most likely due to bad
> memory or cache hardware.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Trap 9 is a GPF.
> 


Thanx - thats the clue!



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