From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 23 04:44:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA02819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA02806 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA08113; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:44:01 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980823214358.51319@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:43:58 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: beatteam@austasia.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Getting 3 errors ...please help... Reply-To: beatteam@austasia.net References: <199808231100.EAA25306@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199808231100.EAA25306@hub.freebsd.org>; from Brett Gray on Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 08:58:48PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [redirected to -questions from -newbies] On Sun, Aug 23, 1998 at 08:58:48PM +1000, Brett Gray wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have set up several versions of freeBSD in the past, and have had no > problems.... but I have set just up a machine for a friend and am getting > the following messages repeated every few seconds.... > > Could Someone please tell me what they mean? > > > Aug 22 18:42:38 mail /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read error > > Aug 22 18:42:38 mail /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) > error, PID 197 failure > > Aug 22 18:42:38 mail /kernel: pid 197 (date), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > (core dumped) > > > Any Help would be appreciated..... "probably hardware" looks like the clue, but what hardware is failing? Maybe someone on the support mailing list can help you work it out. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message