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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fatal trap 12
Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:56:12 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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caleb@crl.com (S. Paul) writes:
> fatal trap 12:page fault while in kernel mode 
> fault vertual address =0x0
> fault code            =supervisor read,page not present
> instruction pointer   =0x8:0xf0105413
> code segment          =base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                       =DPL 0,pres1, def32 1,gran 1
> processor cflags      =interupt enabled, resumed, IOPL=0
> currect process       =5(init)
> interrupt mask        =
> panic page fault
> 
> could someone please tell me what each of the above lines mean or where to
> look for the infomation and discription of the above messages

Your kernel attempted to access data on virtual address zero in the
function around address 0xf0105413.  (To see which function it is, you
have to look at the output of ``nm /kernel''.)  The currently running
process was init, actually a forked child of init, since the
grandfather of all processes has pid 1.

This looks like a problem with your memory or cache.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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