From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 24 20:24:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA08476 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA08467 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA22274; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:50:36 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604250320.MAA22274@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 9 makes + 1 caused panic... To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:50:35 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 24, 96 02:42:57 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc G. Fournier stands accused of saying: > > > > fp is dereferenced a few lines above, and I can't imagine how the structure > > would have become write-protected by accident... > > > > hardware or software bug then? :( Almost certainly hardware; modulo any judgement by John wrt. the changes he's made in the VM area in the last few days. Most of them had to do with accidentally unmapping more than was apprpriate, which would have given you a 'page not present' fault, not a 'write protect' fault. > Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[