From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 18:01:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A8C6E16A4E0 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:01:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E77F43D4C for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 18:01:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k82I1BqC004536; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:01:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k82I1860004531; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:01:07 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20060902180107.GB4394@thought.org> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902160840.GA1344@gothmog.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060902160840.GA1344@gothmog.pc> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oh, no.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 18:01:19 -0000 On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:08:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-09-01 20:30, Gary Kline wrote: > > Well, gang, for about the only time in ten or eleven years, my FreeBSD > > has kernel crashed. The kernel err is 18 I believe a int divide by > > zero. I backup most stuff regularly but still have several megs of > > data files. Can I fix this with a fixit disk? Or is all hope lost? > > > > gary > > > > "Fatal trap 18: blah, blah.... > > "Uptime 1sec" > > Have you restarted the system that crashed? Does it consistently panic > when you try to boot, or was this a panic introduced by the particular > conditions of that moment? > 100% consistent. tHe strange thing is that when I set the boot-order in the BIOS to "CDROM" it's ignored. (Maybe I don't have the boot CD? that occured when I was crawling out of bed!) I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set. --Another few gallons of coffee and I'll check. -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix