From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 15:52:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00641 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ls.wustl.edu (ls.wustl.edu [128.252.251.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00461 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:52:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu) Received: from localhost (drbrowns@localhost) by ls.wustl.edu (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA13651; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:52:06 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 17:52:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Daniel R. Brownstone" To: Doug White 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 charming. Do I just wait for it to happen again? On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Doug White wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel R. Brownstone drbrowns@ls.wustl.edu Wash. U. School of Law '99 ICQ #191058 HOME: (314)-776-0102 PAGER: (314)-663-1367 *** THIS E-MAIL IS PROPRIETARY *** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message