Subject: Re: kernel page fault trap
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/17/2006 13:51:31
Steve Blinkhorn <steve@prd.co.uk> writes:

> Can someone interpret for me please.  One of my machines, running 2.0
> GENERIC, has started to misbehave.   Sometimes it freezes when running
> X.   Sometimes it throws an error during the boot process, of which
> this is an example:
>
> kernel: page fault trap, code=0
> Stopped at netbsd:Xdoreti+ox8a: mov0(%esp),%gs
>
> If it boots successfully, we don't seem to hit errors unless we run X.
>
> I have next to no experience of such errors in 25 years of running
> Unix systems; my initial guess is there may be a fault in physical
> memory.
>
> Any suggestions?

The backtrace from ddb would be useful. Try writing 'tr' at the ddb
prompt.

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  Rui Paulo			<rpaulo@{NetBSD{,-PT}.org,fnop.net}>