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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:21:03 +0100
From:      jmdupoux@lineone.net
To:        jylefort@brutele.be
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel panics in boot phase
Message-ID:  <3CC5DE4F.8735.24DA23E@localhost>

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hello  Jean-Yves

my guess would be rather  some other kind of  hardware  problem,  maybe  with 
one of the  add-on  cards  or the memory in your system, or even a  cooling  
problem


regards
jean-mark

jmdupoux_@_lineone.net



> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:39:44AM +0200, Jean-Yves Lefort wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Recently, my workstation started to panic very often on boot, and only
> > on boot. I didn't note down the messages, but the kernel always whines
> > about vm pages not being present, or hash lookups not successfull.
> > 
> > It always happens at some point shortly after having mounted the
> > various filesystems.
> > 
> > I am used to make world often, my system is the following:
> > 
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD jsite.lefort.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #1: Wed Apr 17 08:38:42 CEST 2002    
> > jylefort@jsite.lefort.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JSITE  i386
> > 
> > I do not retain my CPU or RAM as being the problem, since I never had
> > any panic on this hardware before, and it runs FreeBSD since 4.4-RELEASE.
> > Moreover, if it boots successfully, then it works fine; make buildworld
> > and make buildkernel are always successfull.
> > 
> > The problems started in April; my gateway, running
> > 
> > $ uname -a
> > FreeBSD gateway.lefort.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 16 00:56:12 CET 2002    
> > jylefort@gateway.lefort.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GATEWAY  i386
> > 
> > never paniqued; however, I rebooted it only once since the 16 March, date
> > of its last make world.
> > 
> > My FreeBSD system is now, in boot phase, as stable as the crappiest
> > windoze box. Any enlightenment will be appreciated (eg. am I the only one
> > to endure this, or -STABLE became a lil' bit bogus since a few weeks?)
> 
> I tested more intensively, by booting the system 5 times in a row:
> 
> --- try #1 -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mounting NFS file systems: .
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address   = 0x103
> fault code              = supervisor write, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc023b308
> stack pointer           = 0x10:0xcb2a1e64
> frame pointer           = 0x10:0xcb2a1e68
> 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         = 111 (chflags)
> interrupt mask          = net bio cam
> trap number             = 12
> panic: page fault
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --- try #2 -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Starting standard daemons: inetd cron printer sendmail
> 
> syncing disks... panic: softdep_deallocate_dependencies: dangling deps
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Tries #3 and #4 were successfull.
> 
> --- try #5 -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Doing initial network setup: hostname.
> panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c4f25000
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> As you can see, my system panics ~ 3 times out of 5 at boottime; I might
> suspect a hard disk problem, previewing a huge disk crash.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best regards,
> Jean-Yves Lefort
> 
> -- 
> * Jean-Yves Lefort -- jylefort@brutele.be -- http://lefort.homeunix.org/ *
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