From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 27 04:45:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA03366 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:45:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA03298; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:45:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id NAA21613; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:45:18 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA27430; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:45:18 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id LAA29344; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:52:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607270952.LAA29344@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode To: lithium@cia-g.com (Stephen Fisher) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 11:52:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Stephen Fisher at "Jul 26, 96 04:13:08 pm" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Stephen Fisher wrote: > Instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf0181de2 > As I said it almost always happens on the same instruction pointer. The Do a nm /kernel | sort | more and see which function above address is in. If you are a more adventurous type, you can also disassemble the function with gdb, and try to find the corresponding source line. -- 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. ;-)