From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 10: 3:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC42E14DA2 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:03:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=ben) by scientia.demon.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 123K5X-000DMN-00; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:28:31 +0000 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:28:30 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Danny Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unstable /kernel Message-ID: <19991229142830.B49613@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <3.0.32.19991229182917.00773478@idx.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19991229182917.00773478@idx.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Danny wrote: > - Running FreebSD 3.3 > -Running KDE (one that comes with 3.3) > -Running a P166 > - Had to reinstall FreeBSD > -How come ocassionally get:- > > "Fault Trap 12 in kernel code" I see this a lot - I'm suspecting it's a dodgy motherboard in my case (I swapped the RAM with that from another machine, and the problems persisted, while the other machine continued to have no problems). I've ordered a new motherboard - and guess what, as soon as I ordered the new board, the problems have gone away. I suspect Murphy^WSod's law is in action. This is almost certainly a hardware problem, not a FreeBSD problem. If you can get a kernel dump that shows it is a FreeBSD problem, that would be a different matter. > 1)what exactly is the problem with FreeBSD 3.3? > 2)How can I solve the problem? Get better hardware. :-) First try the RAM (swap with the RAM from another machine if possible), if that doesn't work, something else is wrong. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message