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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 1998 21:10:54 +0200
From:      Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What does that mean?
Message-ID:  <19980309211054.40322@burka.carrier.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199803091843.NAA04002@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 01:43:21PM -0500
References:  <19980309155416.46524@carrier.kiev.ua> <199803091843.NAA04002@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 01:43:21PM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Alexander Litvin said:
> > Sorry for bothering you...
> > 
> > I just tried 'tail <somefile>' and got "Segmentation fault". On the
> > console:
> > 
> > spec_getpages: I/O read failure: (error code=0)
> >                size: 4096, resid: 0, a_count: 3586, valid: 0x0
> >                nread: 4096, reqpage: 1, pindex: 21, pcount: 1
> > vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID 18023 failure
> > Mar  9 15:48:51 grape /kernel: pid 18023 (tail), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> > 
> > The second attempt to issue the same command succeded.
> > 
> > Is it really hardware-related, or...
> > 
> It is likely a bug that I have created.  I work on it NOW.

Just to add a bit more (don't know, may be it helps): I've played
with that wierd thing a bit. Actually, the same thing happened a
few times -- irregularly, but each time with the tail <some-logfile>
(though it should be just coincidense). The machine was makeworlding
at the same time.

Then, after a few such seg.faults tail once again reported
"Segmentation fault", but didn't return to shell. And machine
gradually frose (e.g., I was able to login at one console,
but when I typed 'ps' -- it didn't work, then 'make world'
stopped to compile, then...), I was able to switch consoles,
and to drop to DDB, but that's all.

> -- 
> John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

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