panic: page fault in kernel (3B1/3.51m)
Rex Fowler
rmfowler at texrex.uucp
Sat Jan 12 13:23:28 AEST 1991
A few weeks ago I posted that I had finally fixed my 3b1 kernel parity
error crash problem. Well, I lied. It must have been a lucky 30 hours
uptime since the normal uptime was around 1-4 hours before crashing.
This crash problem lasted over 4 months!
3 days ago I decided to see what drivers I had loaded. I was surprised.
I have a starlan card but it never occurred to me that a loadable driver was
being loaded at boottime. I had removed the starlan card previously
and still had crashes so i dismissed the starlan card as the problem.
So, I decided to play with the drivers and here's what happened.
I replaced lipc with nipc, took out starlan driver, added ate driver
to /etc/lddrv/drivers. Rebooted..
I've been up for 3 days now and TODAY I see postings about the loadable
drivers causing kernel parity error/crashes! Why didn't this discussion
come 4 months ago! :^)
Anyway, I still don't know which driver was guilty since I changed so
many of them at once. After my machine has been up for 5-6 days, (just
to be safe) I will try to isolate which of the drivers was screwing me.
Right now I am just relieved that FINALLY, 4 months later, I have a
reliable machine! I am pretty sure that it was the starlan driver. I
didn't get the errors associated with the lipc driver that I saw in
todays posting by Thad.
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Rex Fowler <rmfowler%texrex at cirr.com>
UUCP: egsner!texrex!rmfowler
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