From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 13:41:18 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10604 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:41:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peedub.muc.de (newpc.muc.ditec.de [194.120.126.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10584 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:41:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from peedub.muc.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.muc.de (8.9.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA06860; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:13:38 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <199902152113.WAA06860@peedub.muc.de> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jason Scott cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fwd: Error Message Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:39:36 PST." <199902150038.QAA07625@mail1.sirius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 22:13:38 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Scott writes: >Here is a error message that is given before my server reboots. Me and >My ISP are unable to figure out what it means... Could you possibly tell me >so that I may troubleshoot the problem? I have FreeBSD 2.2.8, and Apache >version 1.3. Please let me know if you need anymore information. > >Thank You, >Jason Scott > > >>To: freepix@sirius.com >>From: Account Hostmaster >>Subject: Error Message >> >>Hello Jason, >> >>Here's the error message that was on your screen. It does appear to be >>as identical as I can remember to the other one I saw. >> >>Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode >>fault virtual address = 0X18 >>fault code = supervisor write, page not pres >ent >>instruction pointer = 0x8: 0xf0126851 >>stack pointer = 0x10: 0xefbffec0 >>frame pointer = 0x10: 0xefbffee4 >>code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0 >x1b >> = DPL0, pres1, def32 1, gran 1 >>processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL >=0 >>current process = 2994 (httpd) >>interrupt mask = >>panic: page fault >> >>syncing disk . . . >> >> >>There it is, let me know what they say about it. Thanks, >> all one can conclude from this is that a NULL pointer is being dereferenced somewhere. Just giving us addresses is totally meaningless. We need something like output from ``nm /kernel | grep f0126 | sort'' so we can see where the error is occurring. I highly recommend reading the handbook section about kernel debugging. --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message