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From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
To: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Subject: Re: Fatal Trap 12: Page Fault... 
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On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote:

> >Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> >
> >virtual address: 0xf24
> >instruction pointer: 0x8: 0xf01711f5
> >
> >fault code: supervisor write, page not present
> 
>    I need symbol names around this address before I can help.
> 
> >	I'm going to do a make clean; make depend; make on the
> >debug kernel again, just in case something messed up in the make,
> >but is there somewhere that I can set the time it waits without getting
> >a 'hit any key to reboot' before it reboots so that I can write down the
> >whole error?
> 
>    When it crashes, type a single <space>. This will stop the reboot process.
> When you finish copying down the information, type another key and it will
> reboot.
>    ...or add options "DDB" to your kernel and it will drop into the debugger.
> >From here, you can type "trace" to get a symbolic traceback...this is much
> more useful.
>

Wait, stupid question, but...

If I do this...if I'm not around and it reboots itself, with it also go
into the trace debugger?

Thanks...


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