From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 10 14:25:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA25235 for current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:25:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from home.dragondata.com (toasty@home.dragondata.com [204.137.237.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA25206 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 14:25:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toasty@home.dragondata.com) Received: (from toasty@localhost) by home.dragondata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA09556; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:25:16 -0600 (CST) From: Kevin Day Message-Id: <199712102225.QAA09556@home.dragondata.com> Subject: Re: 971208 and the nfs rollback didn't fix it... In-Reply-To: <19971210232302.35402@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Dec 10, 97 11:23:02 pm" To: perhaps@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 16:25:16 -0600 (CST) Cc: perhaps@yes.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 04:18:50PM -0600, Kevin Day wrote: > > > Yes. Userland programs should NEVER be able to crash the kernel, > > > especially not running as users (instead of root). > > > > > > Now - more details :-) Do you get a kernel panic when it crash? > > > > 90% of the time, it's just a reboot., No crash, just jumps straight to the > > memory test. The other 10% it give a 'fault on nofault entry' panic. > > Have you ruled out faulty hardware? Do you get the same fault if you > run with the same disk on another machine? (If not: Is this something > you can afford to test?) I untarred the archive on another -current machine for testing, and it locked up tight. (didn't reboot, though) I could actually move the drive too, if you felt it was necessary. I'm pretty sure there's a bug somewhere in here. Kevin