From owner-freebsd-security Tue Dec 18 5:54:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8E037B41C for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 05:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBIDsNd79983; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:54:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:54:23 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: "Timothy S. Bowers" Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel security? Message-ID: <20011218085423.A79923@blackhelicopters.org> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20011218152322.00babb40@nol.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20011218152322.00babb40@nol.co.za>; from tim@nol.co.za on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:30:51PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, This isn't really a security issue; please address future questions to FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org. We really cannot tell what's happening from this information. Please check the Handbook for full details on how to prepare a debugging crash dump. Get the information, and send it on to FreeBSD-questions. On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 03:30:51PM +0200, Timothy S. Bowers wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.4Stable > Can anyone tell me what is happening to my system ? > > The following appears on the console and then the PC reboots. This happens about once a day. > I'd appreciate it if anyone could send me in the right direction. > > ---------------------------------------------> snip --------------------- > Fatal trap 12: page fault in kernel mode > fault virtual address = 0xc0ba991f > fault code = supervisor write, page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc017ac83 > stack pointer = 0x10:0xd3515e30 > frame pointer = 0x10:0xd3515e54 > 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 = 588 (httpd) > interrupt mask = net tty > trap number = 12 > pannic: page fault > > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds. > ----------------------------------------> snip ------------------------ > > > Thanks, > Timothy > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message