Page fault in kernel mode, 6.0-RELEASE

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 15 22:51:53 GMT 2005


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:15PM +0100, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
> I am fairly new at FreeBSD. I installed a 'beastie' server with 
> 
> FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005
>     root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> but it traps immediately after the boot menu with following output
> immediately after the boot menu:
> 
> /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x40c2c data=0x2160+0x1090 \
> syms=[0x4+0x7810+0x4+0xa292]
> 
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> fault virtual address   = 0x8
> fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
> instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xc079abb9
> stack pointer           = 0x28:0xc0c20d4c
> frame pointer           = 0x28:0xc0c20d58
> code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                         = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
> processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0
> current process         = 0 ()
> trap number             = 12
> panic: page fault
> Uptime: 1s
> 
> Note that the /boot/kernel/acpi.ko line is absent if I boot with acpi
> disabled (menu option 2). But the trap info is not affected by slecting
> that boot option.

Are you using other modules (e.g. nvidia driver)?

Kris
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