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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:00:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Tao <taob@nbc.netcom.ca>
To: Pierre Van Leeuwen <pvl@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
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Subject: Re: tcsh bug?
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Pierre Van Leeuwen wrote:
>
> my apologies, found the error. :)
> Right after the cd command, I called a script from an nfs mounted
> disk, and the permissions weren't correct.  Therefore, ignore my
> complaint/question ;)

    Sure, but that still should not cause a reproduceable kernel
panic, unless you really do have hardware problems on that machine.
It sounds like the kernel is unable to swap in some memory pages.

> > The directory would get created, but the cd $t_dir would 
> > invoke the debugger:
> > 
> > vnode_pager_getpages : I/O read error
> > vm_fault : pager input (probably hardware) error
> > 
> > Fatal trap 12 : page fault while in kernel mode

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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@netcom.ca)
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"