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Date:      Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:49:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Daniel R.  Brownstone" <drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: spontaneous reboot / panic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330154859.24859p-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980330131219.360F-100000@ls.wustl.edu>

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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



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