From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 12 04:02:13 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA00937 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 04:02:13 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA00931 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 04:02:12 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with ESMTP id EAA12295; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 04:01:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id EAA00282; Wed, 12 Jul 1995 04:02:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199507121102.EAA00282@corbin.Root.COM> To: Voradesh Yenbut cc: esser@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One cause of 2.05R instability found In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jul 95 08:04:19 GMT." <199507120804.BAA09215@vetch.cs.washington.edu> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 04:02:33 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >A few days ago, my system (the kernel has the if statement in ncr.c commented >out) crashed twice after it has been running fine for almost a week: >type 12, trap, code = 0 >_sosend + 0x189: onl 0x758bf44d (%ebx),%ecx I'll assume that was really "orl"...but the instruction is bogus no matter how you look at it. >kernel type 1 trap, code = 0 >stopped at _lookup + 0x11b: lcall *%edi Okay, I'm sure that that instruction isn't in the routine. I think you are having memory problems - either incorrect timing (not enough wait states) or the memory is actually defective. -DG