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From: kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: fatal trap 12
Date: 17 Jan 1996 17:05:11 GMT
Organization: Applied Phyics Lab
Lines: 37
Message-ID: <4dja87$gvr@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
References: <4degoi$2je@crl7.crl.com> <4dhkvs$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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     J Wunsch wrote in article <4dhkvs$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> :
>
>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.
>

No, this might not be related to the hardware.  The original post
does not tell us what version of FreeBSD he is running.  I get similar
panics from kernels created with the latest -stable files.  Davidg is
aware of the problem.

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