Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:50:36 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Keith Mitchell <kmitch@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unknown error message Message-ID: <3696.829295436@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:12:53 EDT." <199604120112.VAA17026@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>
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Keith Mitchell wrote in message ID <199604120112.VAA17026@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us>: > Today, one of the machines I admin spontaneously rebooted, and left the > folloing message in syslog: > /kernel: ger input (probably hardware) error, PID 1 > What does this mean?? This should have gone to questions@freebsd.org, but never mind. It's probably really: /kernel: vm_fault: pager input (probably hardware) error, PID x failure My guess for this would be disk failure. If it's a SCSI, then the drive or the controller possibly wedged. For other drives I'd guess it would be a bad block somewhere in the swap space. There was probably a more detailed error before that saying what exactly the problem was, but you must have over-run your kernel message buffer with boot messages or something. Gary
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