From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 12 10:07:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA18441 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA18435 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id IAA03698 ; Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:50:37 +0100 (BST) To: Keith Mitchell cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: unknown error message In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:12:53 EDT." <199604120112.VAA17026@phantasma.bevc.blacksburg.va.us> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 08:50:36 +0100 Message-ID: <3696.829295436@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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