From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 15 03:22:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24ADF16A4CE for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:22:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E436543D2D for ; Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:22:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2C21D5140D; Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:25:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:25:19 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: kalin mintchev Message-ID: <20041115032519.GA43676@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <61839.24.90.34.93.1100484272.squirrel@el.net> <20041115022132.GA30236@xor.obsecurity.org> <62167.24.90.34.93.1100488369.squirrel@el.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <62167.24.90.34.93.1100488369.squirrel@el.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic: page fault X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 03:22:33 -0000 --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 =3D 0xbeff2 > >> /kernel: fault code =3D supervisor read, page not prese= nt > >> /kernel: instruction pointer =3D 0x8:0xc0305ed3 > >> /kernel: stack pointer =3D 0x10:0xd7ec9e18 > >> /kernel: frame pointer =3D 0x10:0xd7ec9e20 > >> /kernel: code segment =3D base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0= x1b > >> /kernel: =3D DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 > >> /kernel: processor eflags =3D interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL =3D 0 > >> /kernel: current process =3D 29374 (perl) > >> /kernel: interrupt mask =3D net tty bio cam > >> /kernel: trap number =3D 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. >=20 > thank you Kris. you are right. sorry. FreeBSD4.6-RELEASE >=20 > 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 --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFBmCGeWry0BWjoQKURAhMoAJjYRfEe+ktdNCQCKq8hhvgHjnJFAKCHGc2B rxyEXnz6FEzbZYhK5/r0ag== =x8fF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--