From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Aug 19 09:26:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA05099 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 09:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA05088 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 09:26:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA16237; Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:26:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:26:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199608191626.KAA16237@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Phil Karn Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP consistently panics on HP Omnibook 4000 In-Reply-To: <199608191619.JAA07254@unix.ka9q.ampr.org> References: <199608191448.IAA15872@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199608191619.JAA07254@unix.ka9q.ampr.org> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Here's a possibly significant clue. I'm using SLIP at the moment, at > least until I can get a PCMCIA Ethernet card that's supported. The > installation scripts set me up with some ifconfig commands in the > startup file, but no slattach command. If I manually attach the slip > interface before doing anything with the network, then I can run > sendmail, telnet, etc just fine without any kernel panics (so far). > > Could there be an uninitialized pointer somewhere in the slip driver > that gets set properly by slattach, thus preventing a kernel page > fault when the pointer is dereferenced? It's definitely a possibility. Let me see if I can reproduce it locally. Nate