From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 15:50:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29643 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29539 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:50:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA25115; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:49:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:49:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Daniel R. Brownstone" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboot / panic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Daniel R. Brownstone wrote: > > I've never actually seen a panic before. The system was slowing down > towards lockup (AGAIN) today, so I went to the console and did a "top". > Instead of getting top, I got a screen telling me that there was a panic, > and a reboot coming in 15 seconds. I wrote down some of the info: > > fatal trap 12, page fault while in kernel mode > fault address: 0x10 > fault cause: supervisor read, page not present > current process: idle > interrupt mask: net tty bro > panic: page fault > > What does it mean, Stimpy? Should be a lot more to this. A panic in idle state would be *very* suspicious; it may be a hardware problem, bad memory or corrupted swap. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message