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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: VNODE Pager Errors 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 11 Mar 1996 13:15:02 EST."
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 19:32:09 +0000
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Network Coordinator wrote in message ID
<199603111815.NAA25619@aries.ai.net>:
> /kernel: vnode_pager_input: I/O read error
> /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware error, PID 287 failure.

Having seen this on my own machine, it normally means that the system
gets a read failure from the swap device, meaning that it can't page
the binary back into memory...

Are there any drive related errors before this in the logs?

Gary