From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 22:21:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD2837B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:21:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73FE543E75 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id C76AC8133C; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:51:47 +0930 (CST) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:51:47 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Patrick O'Reilly Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: ! Fatal trap 12: System Crash twice in last 2 days Message-ID: <20020821052147.GF78608@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <025201c24833$3144f550$b50d030a@PATRICK> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <025201c24833$3144f550$b50d030a@PATRICK> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Tuesday, 20 August 2002 at 12:20:14 +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Help Please - my previously stable system has become rather unstable! > > On Sunday evening at 22:21 (about 3 hours after completing the upgrade > from 4.6.1) the box crashed and restarted of it's own accord. And it > just did the same again about half an hour ago (11:46 Tuesday). > > I have included extracts from /var/log/messages below. The significant > part seems to be: > --- > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > --- > Unfortunately this means nothing to me :( It doesn't mean much to me by itself. > I notice that the "current process" on these two occasions is NOT the > same (rateup on Sunday, perl today). But I have no idea whether that is > significant at all. > > Any advice would be VERY MUCH appreciated! Also, please let me know > what other info would be useful in helping resolve this problem. > > /var/log/messages from Sunday evening: > --- > Aug 18 22:21:05 obelix /kernel: > Aug 18 22:21:05 obelix /kernel: > Aug 18 22:21:05 obelix /kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > Aug 18 22:21:05 obelix /kernel: fault virtual address = 0x0 (etc). None of this is much help. You need to build a debug kernel and get a dump and a stack trace, then we can see what's going on. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message