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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 1997 12:02:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trap 12's in machine over the last few days
Message-ID:  <199703120132.MAA19972@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970310134604.830B-100000@chain-work.iafrica.com> from Khetan Gajjar at "Mar 10, 97 01:51:28 pm"

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Khetan Gajjar stands accused of saying:
> I'm running 2.2-GAMMA, on a DTK motherboard w/512kb, with a Cyrix P150+
> processor and 48MB RAM. There are 3xIDE 1 gig drives, a SMC EtherPower
> NIC and a Diamond Stealth 64.
> 
> Over the last four days, my machine keeps breaking into the debugger, with
> the following :
> 
> Fatal Trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address	= 0x0
> fault code		= supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer	= 0x8:0x0

Erk, that's a jump through a NULL pointer.

> stack pointer		= 0x10:0xefbffe54
> frame pointer		= 0x10:0xefbffe5c
> code segment		= base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> 			= dpl 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags	= interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process		= 248 (halt)
> interrupt mask		=
> kernel:type 12 trap, code=0
> 
> (Sorry for any typo's - difficult to type this stuff)
...
> Any pointers on how to see what the exact problem is ? Does the above trap
> help ? I've tried various combinations of RAM, wiggling everything in,
> etc, but it doesn't help.

Yeah, the 'trace' command will do a reasonable job of unwinding the stack,
which should help you work out where the traps are happening.

> Khetan Gajjar         [ http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan] 

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