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Date:      Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:17:07 +1030
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        erakupa@kk.etx.ericsson.se (ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: npxintr from nowhere 
Message-ID:  <199712112247.JAA01956@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Dec 1997 17:44:51 BST." <199712111644.RAA00495@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se> 

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> What does this message mean, i.e. what's this npxintr thing?

It's the interrupt handler for interrupts from the FPU.

> 	Position 1
> 	npxintr: npxproc = 0x0, curproc = 0x0, npx_exists = 1
> 	panic: npxintr from nowhere
> 
> Why does it crash when/before executing the function? Memory leak
> somewhere? ``netstat -m'' does not show any leak during execution.
> 
> Corrupted instruction pointer? Why does it "find" the first
> printf line?

npxintr() is being called without a valid NPX interrupt status.  Are 
you calling any functions indirectly?

mike





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