Greetings:
I came in this morning to discover that my machine had rebooted overnight.
files in /var/adm/crash revealed that the culprit was :
_panic_string: 0xfffffc0000527f98 = "kernel memory fault"
[....]
trap: invalid memory read access from kernel mode
faulting virtual address: 0x0000000000000014
pc of faulting instruction: 0xfffffc0000319924
ra contents at time of fault: 0xfffffc00004b7960
sp contents at time of fault: 0xffffffff90c135d0
panic (cpu 0): kernel memory fault
trap: invalid memory read access from kernel mode
faulting virtual address: 0x0000000000000014
pc of faulting instruction: 0xfffffc0000319924
ra contents at time of fault: 0xfffffc00004b7960
sp contents at time of fault: 0xffffffff90c12e30
The system has rebooted successfully several times since then without
incident.
My Question ---->
Is this a serious problem? Is it an indicator of potential hardware
failure or is it simply a software thing? I was planning on updating
to 3.2c in the very near future. Should I proceed or try to get to
the bottom of the problem first?
Any advice would be most appreciated. And, as usual, a summary will follow.
_____________________________________________________________________
Cary A. Talbot, Hydraulic Engineer US Army Corps of Engineers
ATTN: CEWES-HH-G Waterways Experiment Station
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180
phone:(601)634-4286 fax:(601)634-4208 email:talbot_at_hl.wes.army.mil
Received on Wed Dec 06 1995 - 17:42:14 NZDT