From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 24 12:14:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (mail.dohboys.com [208.26.253.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960A837B760 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:14:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (unverified [208.26.242.38]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.2.1) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 24 May 2000 12:14:32 -0700 Message-ID: <392C29E8.24CEE186@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:13:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig (BOSS Internet Group) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Albert Visagie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-release Rebooting more often than W*? References: <392BFEAD.645971CC@dsp.sun.ac.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Albert Visagie wrote: > > Hi all! > > I've just installed FreeBSD 4.0 Release, and the box has been rebooting > at least once every two hours or so. It isn't doing anything, or > running any strange daemons that wasn't there after the install, and it > does this regardless of whether or any users (me) are logged in or > anything. I couldn't work out how to get hold of the panic message > thingie, but it looks a lot like some on the mailing list archives, eg.: > > fatal trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode > fault virtual address 0x0 > fault code =supervisor read, page not present > instruction pointer 0x8:0xf01a5b26 > stack pointer 0x10:0xefbffe34 > frame pointer 0x10:0xefbffe80 > code segment base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > DPL 0, pres 1, def 32 1, gran 1 > processor flags interrupt enabled, resume IOPL=0 > current process 321 (pkg_add) > interrupt mask ufs > panic page fault > > I've done some browsing through the mailing list archives, and > \emph{many} have had this problem. The link down here is the only > definitive answer I managed to find. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=13516+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1996/freebsd-questions/19960526.freebsd-questions > > I'll do as it says, but does anyone have any other ideas? this was a > really disappointing start to a new toy. My first questions is "why haven't you upgraded to 4.0-Stable". I personally can't imagine running a server with any release. Even the /usr/src/UPDATING has you cvsup'ing to 4.0-Stable before you begin the upgrade because of things that were fixed in the early release of 4.0. Kent > > Thanks in advance! > > Albert Visagie > > -- > http://www.espresso.ee.sun.ac.za/~avisagie > > "What men are poets, who could speak if Jupiter where like a man, but if > he were an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be > silent?" - Richard Feynman > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message