From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Nov 28 17:16:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05404 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fig.mail.easynet.net (fig.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA05399 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:16:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@sour.cream.org) Received: (qmail 6063 invoked from network); 29 Nov 1998 01:16:25 -0000 Received: from boothman.easynet.co.uk (HELO localhost) (194.154.100.117) by fig.mail.easynet.net with SMTP; 29 Nov 1998 01:16:25 -0000 Received: from sour.cream.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00358; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:14:58 GMT (envelope-from andrew@sour.cream.org) Message-ID: <3660A011.68F02857@sour.cream.org> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:14:57 +0000 From: Andrew Boothman X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alissa bader CC: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation problems References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org alissa bader wrote: > Basically, I can get it to go through the install, but I sometimes get > kind of wonky things when I try to install a package. I get a a "fatal > trap 12: page fault in kernel mode." Then the machine reboots. > > I have been tearing my hair out over this for the past 2 days. I've tried > switching hard drives, I've made a new boot disk,I have disconnected and > reconnected everything inside that computer at least a dozen times. > > Please help me. I mean, unix can't be THIS frustrating It usually isn't! Weird random error messages are often caused by faulty memory, so you should try and replace that and see if it solves your poblem. I'm afraid I don't know anything about that spacific message, so if that doesn't help you'll have to try questions@freebsd.org and see if someone more experienced can help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message