From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 23 04:16:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA28679 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:16:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from EventHorizon.STARDreams.org (maccess-01-055.magna.com.au [203.111.85.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA28667 for ; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 04:16:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevla@studentmail.dis.unimelb.edu.au) Received: from EventHorizon (EventHorizon.STARDreams.org [10.144.144.1]) by EventHorizon.STARDreams.org (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with SMTP id 278; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:15:45 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19980823211529.0095b5f0@studentmail.dis.unimelb.edu.au> X-Sender: kevla@studentmail.dis.unimelb.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:15:29 +1000 To: , "Freebsd Newbies List" From: Kevin Lam Subject: Re: Getting 3 errors ...please help... In-Reply-To: <199808231100.EAA25306@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 20:58 8/23/98 +1000, Brett Gray wrote: >Could Someone please tell me what they mean? >Aug 22 18:42:38 mail /kernel: spec_getpages: I/O read error >Aug 22 18:42:38 mail /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) >error, PID 197 failure >Aug 22 18:42:38 mail /kernel: pid 197 (date), uid 0: exited on signal 11 >(core dumped) I was once running FreeBSD on a known defective disk (just to try and get it started), and it kept throwing me this error (mine was PID 1 though, during system startup), as well as read retry attempts on the hard disk. I suspect it has something to do with FreeBSD attempting to read from swap, but is encountering bad blocks on the hard disk. -- Kevin Lam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message