On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 01:14:20AM +0100, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > Doug White wrote: > > > > Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode > > > > these are bad news. The only times I've seen this is with > > horrifically > > broken code or hardware problems. Mostly hardware problems. > > You might > > check the environmentals on your system, and check the event > > log for any > > ECC correction events or other abnormal behavior. Normal code isn't > > likely to trigger GPFs. > > > > Did you compile the kernel with any non-standard options? > > The machine has been running pretty solid for the last couple of months. > This of course doesn't mean it's not a hardware problem. I'll know for sure > in a couple of days I guess (if it keeps crashing with strange errors). > > Kernel/world is compiled only with standard flags. Nothing in make.conf > except "CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp" (which means -O2 is used). I reverted back to a > non-debug kernel a few weeks ago when the makefiles were changed to only use > -O for debug-kernels. However, after switching mpsafenet back on (replaced > NFS (which locked up for me with mpsafenet) with geom_gate) I have some > spare cycles to burn on the machine. I might as well use a debug-kernel in > case this isn't a hardware problem. FYI, a patch for a deadlock condition in NFS was committed yesterday. It would be great if you can test this out. Kris
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