From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 14:11:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254CD37B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:11:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16UEZU-0004xe-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 22:11:44 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id 0FFCB452AA; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:11:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 23:11:43 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.x - lock ups + reboots Message-ID: <20020125221143.GA1203@raggedclown.net> References: <200201251054.g0PAsET01868@mail18.bigmailbox.com> <20020125214738.E05724844F@wastegate.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020125214738.E05724844F@wastegate.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 04:49:41PM -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 02:54:14 -0800, Joe Blow wrote: > > >This mailing list is my last resort for a hideous problem I've endured for > >well over a year. I first started experiencing it with FreeBSD 4.2-R. I > >bought the FreeBSD 4.3-R CDs when they first came out last year, hoping that > >the problem would disappear. It didn't. > > > >I have searched through the freebsd.org problem reports and mailing list > >arhives, through USENET, and through google.com. Although it seems many > >other users are experiencing similar problems, solutions have been elusive. > >The panic message is basically... > > > >Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > >[...] > > > >... with the register values and so forth that are meaningless to post here > >without some kind of backtrace. Is there any reason why I am unable to get > >crash dumps? > > sounds like bad ram to me. > > try installing and using /usr/ports/sysutils/memtest > > it helps identify if you ram is bad. > Except his problem is very similar to mine, although much more problematic. And the memory on my system laughs in derision at memtest's attempt to break it :) -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message