Subject: panic in vfork w/current
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Brad Parker <brad@fcr.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/25/1994 08:43:56
I sup'd last night (4/24/94), and rebuilt my kernel (I had previously
successfully crossed the river off_t ;-).  It booted fine and appeared
to work great.  I then set things up to rebuilt everything - cleandir
+ all + install.

This ran all night, and this morning I found it churning on

	/usr/libexec/makewhatis /usr/share/man 

(which is odd, since looking around later makes me thing it got a lot 
farther than that, but...)

I opened up another remote X window, fooled around, and the did "ps -axl".
Suddently everything stopped - I looked at the console and found a panic
in vfork.  I believe this was the csh forking ps.

kernel: protection fault trap, code=0
Stopped  at     _fork1+057:    movl    0(%eax),%eax
db> t
_fork1(f83a2500,1,f7bbfff8c,f7bfffb4,f8169353) at _fork1+0x57
_vfork(f83a2500,f7bfff94,f7bfff8c,0,0) at _vfork+0x10
_syscall() at _syscall+0x12b
--- syscall (number 66) ---
0x16b95:
db>

eax = 0xffffffff

I have not looked at this real hard (I will), but I figured I'd report it.
-brad

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