From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 14:43: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net (pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BB7A37B404 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:42:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0273.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.18] helo=mindspring.com) by pintail.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16n5qB-0001ER-00; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:42:55 -0800 Message-ID: <3C966D5C.22B4FDE0@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:42:36 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Abdul Basit Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fault VA=0x0 segfaults. References: <20020318054606.G51974-100000@wireless.cs.twsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Abdul Basit wrote: > basit@wireless:~$ silc > fatal process exception: page fault, fault VA = 0x0 > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > basit@wireless:~$ > > This is what i get randomly with programs(for example mozilla) , specially > when running programs with linux binary compat. though freebsd compiled > programs does segfaults too sometimes .. I'm sure its not corrupted > memory cause everything was working before. > > can any one give me any tip on it ? Dereference of NULL pointer in kernel mode. No one will be able to help you without a stack traceback from the kernel debugger. Enable the kernel debugger, build a new kernel, cause the problem again, and post the traceback. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message