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Date:      Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:33:21 -0500 (EST)
From:      "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vm_fault in tail(1)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980124113113.549A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980124112425.19581A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu>

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On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, David E. Cross wrote:

> Ok, here is an interesting problem for everyone, I try to tail a specifc
> file on a CD that I burned, and tail(1) produces no output, and just
> seg-faults, wihout a core dump, and the following errors are written to
> syslog:
> 
> Jan 24 11:17:49 phoenix /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware)
> error, PID 19547 failure
> Jan 24 11:17:49 phoenix /kernel: pid 19547 (tail), uid 1000: exited on
> signal 11
> 

Some further information, I rebooted the machine, and immediately tried
tail(1) after the reboot (with 39M of the 64M listed as free and no VM
usage), same error, and after runnig tail(1), still no VM usage.

--
David Cross
UNIX Systems Administrator
GE Corporate R&D




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