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To: Mitch James <mitchj@hardware.com>
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Subject: Re: Correction:Fatal Trap 12: Page fault.... 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 20:05:44 -0800
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>I started with FreeBSD on my machine with 2.1.1? upgraded to 2.1.5 off the
>WC CD-ROM.  I began getting The Fatal Trap 23: ... error right after the
>upgrade. I'm using a Cyrix 686 P-150 w/32 meg ram.  I thought my problem
>was some bug with 2.1.5 so I waited for the 2.1.6 CD to fix the problem. I
>have now changed out the SCSI card that I thought was suspect, it was 
>running 2.1.1 just fine.  I just tonight started to track the info that
>pops up on screen just before the reboot. Here it is:

   We release 2.1.0, 2.1.5, and 2.1.6...but in any case, I think you're
experiancing some sort of hardware problem - perhaps main memory or cache.
There aren't any known problems in any of the above that would cause
frequent random panics when running things like sysinstall and finger.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project