From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 05:24:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA28093 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:24:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA28085 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 05:24:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA25255; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:38:57 GMT Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa12858; 23 Apr 96 8:21 EDT Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:21:44 -0400 (EDT) From: steve hovey To: Michael Smith cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is fatal error 9 ? In-Reply-To: <199604230337.NAA07851@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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!