On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, William O Ferry wrote:

=> 	For the past several months trying to run -current on my 3100 I have 
=> experienced frequent and random panics, all have had the message "trap: TLB 
=> miss (load or instr. fetch) in kernel mode".  I initially thought it might 
=> have been my machine overheating, as it always occurred during compiles and 
=> the machine was getting quite warm.  Now that the weather is cooling down 
=> though, and I have opened up the machine yet it still crashes frequently.  At 
=> the moment I can't even do a "make install" in /usr/src, it panics before it 
=> makes it out of the lib directory.  I've experienced this problem with 
=> basically all of the 1.4 -curent kernels, from 1.4A all the way through 1.4M.  
=> I'll have to give 1.4 or 1.4.1 a go as soon as I get the chance to download it
=> 
=> 	Has anybody heard of anything like this?  Any clue what I could to about it?  
=> Here are a few of the messages I've seen this morning, both while doing a 
=> "make install" in /usr/src:

This same problem has happened for me, too, on my 3100 for every
post-1.4 -current I've tried.  I had no problems with 1.4-release, and
am currently running 1.4.1-release without any problems.  I get the
problem under -current whether I run a GENERIC or a custom kernel.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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