Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:21:44 -0400 (EDT) From: steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is fatal error 9 ? Message-ID: <Pine.SCO.3.91.960423082104.14364M-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199604230337.NAA07851@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Doug White stands accused of saying: > > > > 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. > > GPF is an intel thing. It's not very common under FreeBSD, but it can happen. > It means that you are suffering memory corruption, most likely due to bad > memory or cache hardware. > > > 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. > > Trap 9 is a GPF. > Thanx - thats the clue!
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