Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:25:19 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: kalin mintchev <kalin@el.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: page fault Message-ID: <20041115032519.GA43676@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <62167.24.90.34.93.1100488369.squirrel@el.net> References: <61839.24.90.34.93.1100484272.squirrel@el.net> <20041115022132.GA30236@xor.obsecurity.org> <62167.24.90.34.93.1100488369.squirrel@el.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:12:49PM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:04:32PM -0500, kalin mintchev wrote: > >> ok... about every 6 - 7 days the machine reboots because of this: > >> > >> /kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > >> /kernel: fault virtual address = 0xbeff2 > >> /kernel: fault code = supervisor read, page not present > >> /kernel: instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0305ed3 > >> /kernel: stack pointer = 0x10:0xd7ec9e18 > >> /kernel: frame pointer = 0x10:0xd7ec9e20 > >> /kernel: code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > >> /kernel: = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > >> /kernel: processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > >> /kernel: current process = 29374 (perl) > >> /kernel: interrupt mask = net tty bio cam > >> /kernel: trap number = 12 > >> /kernel: panic: page fault > >> > >> where do i look? > >> > >> thanks.......... > > > > You forgot to mention what version of FreeBSD you're running..if it's > > old, upgrade to the latest version, because bugs are located and fixed > > all the time. > > thank you Kris. you are right. sorry. FreeBSD4.6-RELEASE > > well.. i'm pretty sure the problem is caused by the courier imap server. > it wasn't doing it before i installed qmail and courier. > the courier starts executing a command called 'ulimit' > the original script uses the -v flag to the command to assign virtual > memory. the thing is this bsd version ulimit doesn't support _any_ flags. > when i was starting it with the flag i was getting error message that the > flag is not supported and the machine was crashing after a while with a > message about virtual memory problems. so i took the flag out... now it > crashes with this panic... Follow my advice then.. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBmCGeWry0BWjoQKURAhMoAJjYRfEe+ktdNCQCKq8hhvgHjnJFAKCHGc2B rxyEXnz6FEzbZYhK5/r0ag== =x8fF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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