From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 24 08:33:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23340 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:33:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.its.rpi.edu (dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu [128.113.161.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23321 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 08:33:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (dec@localhost) by phoenix.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id LAA00560 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:33:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:33:21 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vm_fault in tail(1) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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