From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 8:56:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A45D37B400 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089AA43E4A for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 08:56:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g72Fujt16128; Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:56:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200208021556.g72Fujt16128@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Trap 12 page fault in kernel mode To: mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th (Roger Merritt) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:56:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020802125336.007d78c0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> from "Roger Merritt" at Aug 02, 2002 12:53:36 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > I've been having problems running portsdb and portupgrade remotely for a > couple of months now. When I use SSH to log in and run portsdb I get a hell > of a lot of error messages (mostly saying "" doesn't exist and the > dependency list is incomplete) and after a couple of hours the server > reboots. Today I caught it while the screen was still displaying the error > message, "Trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode". Today I was running the > file output by 'portversion -c > needs.update'. The machine had been > chugging away merrily for a couple of hours downloading and compiling when > the same thing happened. > > I guess from the term "page fault" there has been a glitch in virtual > memory. Is this a symptom that my hard drive might be developing problems? > Oddly enough, I've run similar commands from the console and they've > completed without a reboot. The term "page fault" just means it had to page out some memory to disk or get it back again. The virtual memory system pages so swap space. I don't know about the other messages though. I supposes they could also relate to running out of memory and swap space but really don't know. ////jerry > > -- > Roger > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message