From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 17 01:24:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02005 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:24:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA01944 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 01:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.183]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:25:13 +0200 Received: (from malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00764; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 10:22:16 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Bryce Newall Subject: RE: Crash problem (fwd) Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Did you make any hardware changes before the problems started ? Malte. On 16-Jun-98 Bryce Newall wrote: > My apologies if this is a repeat... I had some mail problems and I'm not > sure if this actually made it out or not. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 11:26:23 -0700 (PDT) > From: Bryce Newall > To: FreeBSD Questions List > Subject: Crash problem > > Greetings once again, > > A friend of mine is having some difficulty with his FreeBSD system. He's > currently running 2.2.2-RELEASE (I know we should upgrade, which we're > trying to do, but the problem we're experiencing is preventing that from > happening). The problem is that the machine would spontaneously reboot > without warning. He and another friend of his finally got some remote > logging set up, and this is what they found the last time it rebooted: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0xd > fault code = supervisor write, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf0129e32 > stack pointer = 0x10:0xefbffdfc > frame pointer = 0x10:0xefbffe04 > 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 = 25263 (make) > interrupt mask = bio > panic: page fault > > syncing disks... 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 76 > giving up > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort > Rebooting... > > In this particular instance, it rebooted during the "make buildworld" > process. However, it doesn't seem to make a different what process is > running at the time. At first we thought it was memory, but we swapped > out the memory (it has 128 MB) and it still had problems. Then we became > suspicious of the swap drive, thinking perhaps it had a bad spot on it > somewhere. However, on the last crash, he was monitoring it, and it > hadn't even dipped into swap yet (at least it hadn't appeared to... maybe > it did and that's what caused the reboot... don't know). > > We've noticed before that in, say, compiling a kernel, it will almost > invariably fail the first time (but won't crash the machine). Then, if > you do "make" again on the kernel, it'll pick up where it left off and > finish successfully. Obviously, I don't like seeing that, because that > tells me something is definitely wrong. Given the output above, does > anyone have any theories as to what the problem might be? > > Thanks in advance, > Bryce > > ********************************************************************** > * Bryce Newall * Email: data@dreamhaven.org * > * WWW: http://home.dreamhaven.org/~data * > * "Stop smirking, Number 1." -- J.L. Picard * > * "I'm a doctor, not a doorstop!" -- EMH Program, ST:FC * > ********************************************************************** > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 17-Jun-98 Time: 10:16:59 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message