From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 22 22:28:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA05094 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:28:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA05088 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:28:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA04097; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:31:19 -0400 Message-Id: <199604230531.BAA04097@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: What is fatal error 9 ? To: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:31:18 -0400 (EDT) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Apr 22, 96 07:15:24 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote... > On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Steve wrote: > > > > > My one box has been locking up periodically and today I had several > > errors on the screen (along with a lockup) - there was fatal error 9, and > > a general protection fault error. > > > > Any insight is appreciated! (mostly as to what an error 9 is) > > These are FreeBSD errors? I didn't know FreeBSD would GPF. Panic, yes; > GPF, no. That is a Windows thing, I thought. > > To answer the question: I don't know what an error 9 is. If you could > give some of the context that would be helpful. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > My reading of /usr/include/errno.h makes error 9 EBADF - bad file descriptor. Something like referring to a file which the program has already closed. Other things are possible - could a full file system cause this? As with all other errors, memory corruption can cause this, but it wouldn't be the first error I would expect. John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key