Subject: Re: Kernel Panic
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Amergin <amergin@wwa.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/03/1999 17:20:23
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 11:25:00PM -0500, Amergin wrote:
> > I recieved the following on a i386 based system using 1.4
> > 
> > I can find no pattern or reason as to what would cause it. I don't truly
> > know enough to even begin to guess at this point. Can anyone point me in
> > the right direction or tell me what it means?
> > 
> > Page fault, could that be physical memory or swap?
> 
> Could be, but there is also a few bugs in 1.4.
> Can you get a stack trace here ? If you have ddb compiled in (it's in the
> default kernel) just issue a 'tr'.

Any particular options?

> If not, the kernel should have dumped a core which has been written to disk
> later by savecore (in /var/crash, if you have enouth disk space).
> Then just do:
> gdb netbsd.x
> target kcore netbsd.x.core
> where

I didn't find a dump. Interestingly enough it hasn't crashed again. Almost
24hrs I can only hope.

Thanks for the leads.