Subject: Re: 19990101 kernel panics
To: None <jsturges@gmri.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/22/1999 15:45:16
>
> panic: trap: access fault without process
> Stopped at _arithflt+0x18b: bbc $6, 60(r8), _arithflt+0x1ed
>
> Now, I don't know fully how to interpret this, but the "arithflt" would
> seem to indicate some relationship to floating point math, somehow. That's
> all I can glean. :-)
>
"arithflt" is a misnaming, but I haven't renamed it yet anyway. The
panic has showed up in the main trap routine. What it meant is that
there was a page fault while no process was running; probably in
an interrupt routine. This should not happen.
-- Ragge