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Date:      Mon, 03 May 1999 22:05:39 +0100
From:      Greg Bedrossian <greg@gcsl.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        adhir@forumone.com, Hostmaster@gcsl.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fatel trap 12
Message-ID:  <372E0FA3.B763F91B@gcsl.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031211570.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Hi Doug,

Thanks much for the info. We will try 3.0 with which we have had good luck so far. I understand there are some problems relating to sendmail in
this dist. Its all vey vague. We are only using it for DNS for the time being.

Regards,

Greg

Doug White wrote:

> On Sat, 1 May 1999, Greg Bedrossian wrote:
>
> > Its not clear what Doug has experienced in this case. It would appear from his
> > brief comment that others have complained of the same thing. All-in-all there
> > seems to be very little discussion on the subject. What is a trap 12 message
> > and what does it mean?
>
> A Trap 12 occurs when the kernel attempts to access a memory address that
> does not fall within its address space.  This would occur if a pointer to
> a subroutine or memory block was corrupted.  This is why I keep quoting
> the 'Fault virtual address' since that's the memory address the kernel
> tried to access.  On the batch with 3.1, it's usually really low, like <
> 0x10000.  The kernel loads in at that memory address, so nothing should be
> going lower than that.
>
> > At this point we will try to install on another machine with 3.1 and
> > see where we go. If the problems persist, we will fall back to 3.0
> > (problematic ?) or 2.2.7. We don't have 2.2.8.
>
> I've had luck with 3.0 on both my workstation and a gateway server.  We
> put 3.1 on a P3/500 and it has certain nuances.
>
> > > > > Fatel trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > > > > fault virtual address      =  0xefc00000
> > > >
> > > > I'm getting tired of this.
> > > >
> > > > Use 2.2.8.
>
> Doug White
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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