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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:12:30 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel panic in 2.2.2R with ppp
Message-ID:  <3473725E.237C228A@whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119100750.3360F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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I fixed a bug in the routing socket code that had this set
of symptoms. it is fixed in 2.2.5

the symptom is a fault at the beginning of a page (e.g.0xf057a000)
with a networking program that sets the default route (e.g. ppp).

2.2.2 had this problem.



Doug White wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > Seriously, as you already suspect, it can't really be ppp that's
> > causing the problem.  I'd suspect a memory problem.  Is the
> > instruction pointer the same each time ?  If so, the only way to
> > diagnose this is to rebuild your kernel with symbols (-g), wait for
> > it to crash again, and try to find out where the instruction pointer
> > is pointing.
> 
> Whihc of these should I be looking at?  Using `nm /kernel | grep xxx', the
> fault virtual addr doesn't point to anything but the instruction pointer
> is in the middle of the msdosfs code.
> 
> > > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> > > > fault virtual address     = 0xf057a000
> > > > fault code                = supervisor read, page not present
> > > > instruction pointer       = 0x8:0xf013d087
> > > > stack pointer             = 0x10:0xefbffd80
> > > > frame pointer             = 0x10:0xefbffd9c
> > > > 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           = 24356 (ppp)
> > > > interrupt mask            =
> > > > panic: page fault
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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