I have run into this in the past too, when a bad file was encountered on the CD (home burned CDR). The system did not shut down though, it just kept on working.
Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: Nick Hibma <nick.hi...@jrc.it> To: FreeBSD current mailing list <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 12:40 PM Subject: panic occurred: vm_fault > >In case someone who is interested in the following panic: > >Occurred under a lightly loaded system that was not doing anything apart >from reading a CD (dd if=/dev/cd0c of=/dev/null bs=512). >Kernel current as of yesterday. >No core file is available unfortunately. > > >panic: vm_fault: fault on nofault entry, addr: c35c6000 >(blabla about debugger) >> show registers >cs 0x8 >ds 0x10 >es 0x10 >ss 0x10 >eax 0x12 >ecx 0xc00b8f00 >edx 0xc024d1a4 db_lengths+0x11c >ebx 0xc0248255 >__set_sysctl_set_sym_sysctl__vm_swap_async_max+0x1d9 >esp 0xc6f23ca8 >ebp 0xc6f23cb0 >esi 0x100 >edi 0xc35c6000 >eip 0xc020f993 Debugger+0x37 >efl 0x256 >> trace >panic >vm_fault >trap_pfault >trap >calltrap() >--- trap >slow_copyout >spec_read >ufsspec_read >ufs_vnoperatespec >vn_read >read >syscall >Xint0x80syscall > > >-- >ISIS/STA, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra, Italy > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message