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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 1995 16:15:20 +0000 ()
From:      Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD lists dead?
Message-ID:  <199508151615.QAA00256@exit.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <7639.808532136@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <6226.808523833@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 15, 95 02:57:13 pm

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> That's weird - I've been receiving stuff every day since Friday.
> Ummm..  I don't recall anything.  Are you sure that email is flowing
> to your site?

Well, your email got here, and my email got to you, but stuff I sent to
majordomo went unreplied, and I haven't seen anything from it (which should
be addressed to 'fmayhar@exit.com' to distinguish it from other email).

I've sent test email to 'fmayhar%exit.com@freebsd.org' which should loop
back to me.  I haven't seen it as yet, though.

> I understand.  We just need to figure out where your email is going,
> first! :)

Well, email to 'frank@exit.com' seems to be working fine, so I'll use it.
I have a stack trace courtesy of ddb, btw.  If you don't mind, I'll attach
the info below, so that you can forward it to the appropriate parties.  (I
did the send-pr bit, but it apparently went into the bit bucket, sigh.)

Configuration:

Pentium 100, ASUS P55TP4XE motherboard, pipeline burst SRAM, 32 MB 60ns
memory, Adaptec 2940W, Maxtor LXT340sy + 2 Toshiba MK538FBs (340 MB, and
two 1.2 GB), Archive Viper 2150S tape, Actix GraphicsEngine Ultra +.
Running FreeBSD 2.1.0-072695-SNAP.

Crash:

I run News on this box, with a compressed uucp newsfeed.  While unpacking
news, the system crashes with:

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address		= 0xf81ef050
fault code			= supervisor write, page not present
instruction pointer		= 0x8:0x4018679c
code segment			= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
				= DPL 0, pres 1, def 321, gran 1
processor eflags		= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
current process			= 11503 (gzip)
interrupt mask			= net tty bio
panic: page fault

I finally got a trace courtesy of DDB (not corresponding to the above
message, but the same fault code):

_trap_fatal(efbffb4c,c,f0c10500,efbffb4c,f0b43e00) at _trap_fatal+0x277
_trap_pfault(efbffb4c,0,f024fb10,f01cbd60,f26db6f8) at _trap_pfault+0x158
_trap(10,10,f26eb6f8,f01cbd60,efbffb94) at _trap+0x27b
calltrap(f01cbd60,2bfe0000,0,f26db6f8,0) at calltrap+0x15
_vm_hold_load_pages(f26eb6f8,f2bbc000,f2bbe000,f26db6f8) at _vm_hold_load_pages+0x4c
_allocbuf(f26eb6f8,2000,efbffc98,efbffd10,ffffffff) at _allocbuf+0x8a
_getblk(f0c7cd00,b,2000,0,0) at _getblk+0x23a
_bread(f0c7cd00,b,2000,ffffffff,efbffc98) at _bread+0x21
_ffs_blkatoff(efbffd10,f0c7cd00,efbfff0c,efbffef8,f0bf2700) at _ffs_blkatoff+0xc3
_ufs_lookup(efbffd74,0,efbfff0c,efbffee8,1) at _ufs_lookup+0x44a
_lookup(efbffee8,0,efbfff94,602,f0277f2c) at _lookup+0x256
_namei(efbffee8,0,efbfff94,f0c10500,f0c10500) at _namei+0x122
_vn_open(efbffee8,602,1b4,efbfff94,f0c10500) at _vn_open+0x5a
_open(f0c10500,efbfff94,efbfff8c,842006,0) at _open+0x97
_syscall(27,27,287d4,0,efbfd2fc) at _syscall+0x161

I can reproduce this pretty much at will, so if there's anything else that
anyone needs me to look at, let me know.  If it's already solved, so much
the better.

Oh, the other problem is with the XFree86 3.1.1 server; I run the S3 server,
and after a short time, it appears to hang.  A ps (from a serial terminal)
shows it racking up CPU.  Sometimes there are visual flashes or short-lived
garbage on the screen shortly before it crashes.  Is there a known hardware
incompatibility between the ASUS motherboard and the Actix card?

Sorry for the length.  I'm kind of desperate; I've been down for a few days,
now, with no end in sight.  Any help you could give me would be very, very
much appreciated.  Thanks.
-- 
Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com



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