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From: bharbour@teleport.com (Bob Harbour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Help with fatal trap 12 crashes please
Date: 13 Dec 1996 06:33:55 GMT
Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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I am putting together a pci/pentium machine to run freebsd 2.1.5, and have
successfully installed freebsd after much thrashing. The machine is
crashing very often with Fatal Trap 12 along with messages about kernel
page faults, freeing busy pages and a couple of other messages. It
normally happens when doing a lot of disk accesses (IDE disk). It is
strange, I can often compile a kernel, but I have yet to be able to build
the locate database without crashing. I also get processes exiting for
signal 11 pretty often. I have tried several varieties of RAM, 16mb
through 48mb, with similar results. Does anybody have any ideas on this?
Does this sound like a setup problem, or a mainboard problem?

Thanks in advance

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Bob Harbour
bharbour_AT_teleport_DOT_com