From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 7 11:40:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D238737B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:40:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (bay2-dav28.bay2.hotmail.com [65.54.246.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5871343F93 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mreeves_freebsdlists@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 11:40:52 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [64.241.196.2] From: "Maurice Reeves" To: "Aaron" , References: <005401c2e4de$e20bec20$cea8a8c0@iowaone.net> Subject: Re: vm_fault panic Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:40:49 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Mar 2003 19:40:52.0239 (UTC) FILETIME=[763EB1F0:01C2E4E1] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Aaron, I can't help you with the specific error you're getting but I highly recommend the two article series from Michael Lucas about System Panics on www.onlamp.com: Article 1: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html Article 2: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/04/Big_Scary_Daemons.html They've helped me a lot with panics. hth, Maurice Reeves ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron" To: Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 2:22 PM Subject: vm_fault panic > Hello, > > I'm not sure if I have enough information about the panics yet. They always > seem to occur when I'm away from the computer. > I have one of the mini ITX mb's with the C3 processor and Via chipset. > The last panic that I caught was vm_fault: no fault entry. > I read about "getting the most out of your panics", using "nm"and didn't > really find anything in the kernel relating to the panic error. I was also > using the generic kernel during this panic. > I think it has something to do with my fdisk setup. However, this is just a > wild guess. > I'll be doing a cvsup, with no other processes running, and I'll get a > kernel panic " syncing 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 " > I have tried several different disk geometries. I matched it to the bios > setting.... Still have the same troubles. > The drive is nearly new. WDigital wd200bb > I tried installing redhat on it as well, just to see how it would react. I > get similar problems with errors about a problem with the main partion. > I have 3 freebsd books and the web and I'm still not gaining ground on this > problem. It is very intermittent. > I thought I was on to something when I found the BIOS APM was on, but that > didn't help either. > Any help? I'll try and get more info on my panics. > Thanks, > Aaron > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message