Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 21:15:29 +1000 From: Kevin Lam <kevla@studentmail.dis.unimelb.edu.au> To: <beatteam@austasia.net>, "Freebsd Newbies List" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Getting 3 errors ...please help... Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980823211529.0095b5f0@studentmail.dis.unimelb.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199808231100.EAA25306@hub.freebsd.org>
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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
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