Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 04:06:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> To: Lawrence Farr <l.farr@epcdirect.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12 when running mergemaster. Message-ID: <20020220040338.E87756-100000@master.gorean.org> In-Reply-To: <000901c1944f$9854dc30$c806a8c0@lfarr>
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Lawrence Farr wrote:
> I did a cvsup this morning built and installed world and kernel.
> While running mergemaster I got:
>
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>
> And always at the same file
>
> ./share/doc/psd/27.nfsrfc missing (created)
>
> I swapped the memory, drive cables, processor etc, but always got the
> same result.
> After about 10 different runs, and always getting the same result,
> I started to suspect something software based. Looking in /var,
> I realised that /var/tmp was symlinked to /usr/tmp.
> Creating a /var/tmp directory fixed the problem completely, and I
> finished mergemaster.
>
> Just for the hell of it, I deleted the dir, and symlinked it again, and
> got exactly the same fault, in exactly the same place.
>
> Any ideas why? Should I open a PR, or does this sound like a bust
> install?
Are you still experiencing this problem? FYI, it's definitely not
a problem with mergemaster itself, since the directory creation you
describe above is part of the /usr/src/etc/Makefile run.
Doug
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