From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 19 18:55:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61DBD37B424 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA28207; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:25:04 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 11:25:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matt Thomas Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Kernel traps (was: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE is about as stable as windows98) Message-ID: <20000820112503.F4230@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from cdt4668@bellsouth.net on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:43:50PM -0400 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 19 August 2000 at 14:43:50 -0400, Matt Thomas wrote: > Hello All, > > I have been having a problem for quite some time now with FreeBSD > bombing out with a Page Fault 12 error in the kernel. I have been > reading the list for over a year now and have noticed in the past > few months a few people mention the same problem. All I have read > is that it deals with a network overflow in the kernel and it is > fixed. This statement doesn't make it clear that you understand what a "page fault error" really is. There are multiple possible reasons. > I am writing this to say it is indeed not fixed. Which bug? > I have noticed the problem since 4.1-RC3 and still do this very day > am having the page fault and reboot on a 4.1-STABLE cvsup'd > yesterday. I wake up and my computer is sitting there not booted up > waiting for me to say yes to write to the boot record and it is > getting quite annoying. "Yes to write to the boot record"? What is that? That doesn't sound like a bug in FreeBSD. > I cannot keep a BSD system up for only 2 days when my 4.0-STABLE > went 100 days uptime no problem. Someone PLEASE fix this bug. It would be nice to know which bug you're talking about. > I cvsup and make kernels every day hoping it will get rid of this > problem but alas it doesn't. Page Fault error 12 is kicking my ass > and I have seen other people post this problem buy nothing has come > about of it. Thanks for your time, please fix my BSD, this is > getting quite annoying. If you have problems with the system crashing, we're interested. But you need to give a few details. The first thing we need to see is a backtrace from a dump. Refer to the online handbook for details on how to do that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message