From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 6 00:36:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA01865 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA01858 for ; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:36:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00441; Sun, 6 Apr 1997 10:36:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA08165; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 08:11:39 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970405081139.CL21171@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 08:11:39 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: robin!knarf@camelot.de Subject: Re: kern/2923: panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: f6e21000 References: <199704041117.GAA10676@lakes.water.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from robin!knarf@camelot.de on Apr 5, 1997 01:05:17 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As robin!knarf@camelot.de wrote: > I typed `trace' and saw nfs_bioread, nfs_readdir, getdirentries, > syscall, Xsyscall. > > Does this mean the panic happend during an nfs_readdir as a client? Yes, it does. You might also wanna have a look at the most recent version of the handbook, the chapter about kernel debugging. I've described the basic steps to get remote gdb to work. This could be a big gain investigating kernel data structures (if you've got a second FreeBSD machine, of course). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)