On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Frank van der Linden wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 12:13:20PM -0800, Jonathan O'Brien wrote:
> > 
> > I doubt the crashes were due to a lack of swap, I had rebuilt the
> > world several times before this last round of changes without a single
> > panic. The system has 64MB and I don't run X. :) But, we'll see what
> > happens.
> 
> Hmm, right. Looking at your trace output again running out of VM could
> hardly be the cause (I should've read it better..)
> 

After I enabled swap, I rebooted the system several times without a
panic. Once I realized I had only seen the panic from a cold boot. I
tried that and bang, there it was.

It didn't even get to the login prompt:

[...]
root file system type: ffs
trap type 0x7: pc=0xf0106b14 npc=0xf0106b18 psr=110007c5<S,PS>
panic: alignment fault
Stopped at      _Debugger+0x4:  jmpl            [%o7 + 0x8], %g0
db> trace
_trap(0x7, 0x110007c5, 0xf0106b14, 0xf1a14db0, 0xf01b8260, 0xf1a14e88) at _trap
+0xd8
slowtrap(0x0, 0xf01fd000, 0xf073e000, 0x0, 0xf1a14e98, 0xf1a14e94) at slowtrap+
0xbc
_vm_fault(0x0, 0xffdf, 0x1, 0xf017d400, 0x0, 0x3) at _vm_fault+0x110
_mem_access_fault(0xf0741e00, 0x8040, 0x5db1c, 0xb968, 0x11400080, 0xf1a14fb0) a
t _mem_access_fault+0x1a8
normal_mem_fault(0x5d800, 0x0, 0x60048, 0xffffffff, 0x11400083, 0xf1a12fb0) at n
ormal_mem_fault+0x28
db> 

I've got the system still at the db> prompt, if there's anything
you'd like me to look at...

jonathan