Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 12:13:44 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Albert Visagie <avisagie@dsp.sun.ac.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0-release Rebooting more often than W*? Message-ID: <392C29E8.24CEE186@3-cities.com> References: <392BFEAD.645971CC@dsp.sun.ac.za>
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Albert Visagie wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> I've just installed FreeBSD 4.0 Release, and the box has been rebooting
> at least once every two hours or so. It isn't doing anything, or
> running any strange daemons that wasn't there after the install, and it
> does this regardless of whether or any users (me) are logged in or
> anything. I couldn't work out how to get hold of the panic message
> thingie, but it looks a lot like some on the mailing list archives, eg.:
>
> fatal trap 12 page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address 0x0
> fault code =supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer 0x8:0xf01a5b26
> stack pointer 0x10:0xefbffe34
> frame pointer 0x10:0xefbffe80
> code segment base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> DPL 0, pres 1, def 32 1, gran 1
> processor flags interrupt enabled, resume IOPL=0
> current process 321 (pkg_add)
> interrupt mask ufs
> panic page fault
>
> I've done some browsing through the mailing list archives, and
> \emph{many} have had this problem. The link down here is the only
> definitive answer I managed to find.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=13516+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/1996/freebsd-questions/19960526.freebsd-questions
>
> I'll do as it says, but does anyone have any other ideas? this was a
> really disappointing start to a new toy.
My first questions is "why haven't you upgraded to 4.0-Stable". I
personally can't imagine running a server with any release. Even the
/usr/src/UPDATING has you cvsup'ing to 4.0-Stable before you begin the
upgrade because of things that were fixed in the early release of 4.0.
Kent
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Albert Visagie
>
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