From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 19:31:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA26025 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:31:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25989 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:31:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id MAA22814; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:01:21 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980627120121.P16259@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 12:01:21 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "Julian C. Dunn" , Doug White Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel panic: page fault (hardware error?) References: <3.0.5.32.19980626091534.00814b00@aecp09.nmarcom.com> <3.0.5.32.19980626153827.00813720@aecp09.nmarcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980626153827.00813720@aecp09.nmarcom.com>; from Julian C. Dunn on Fri, Jun 26, 1998 at 03:38:27PM -0400 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 26 June 1998 at 15:38:27 -0400, Julian C. Dunn wrote: > At 11:03 AM 6/26/98 -0700, you wrote: > >>> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode >>> fault virtual address = 0xf12acff0 >>> fault code = supervisor write, page not present >>> instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf01d75b8 >> >> Well, in the 2.2.6 GENERIC, this is in the middle of pmap_remove_pages, >> which would imply either a memory or swap problem or other sort of data >> corruption. >> >> Do programs crash randomly with sig10 or sig11 (Bus error or Segmentation >> Fault) errors? > > No they don't. The only thing that goes wrong with the computer is that it > crashes periodically as described. I could try dismounting the swap > partition and/or switching the SIMMs -- what do you think? Running without swap isn't going to help. What you need to do is to determine where the problem occurs. Have you taken a dump? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message