Frequent system panics
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My pfSense 2.0.1 NanoBSD ALIX 2D3 system reboots itself too often (five times since September 2012 according to remote syslog records). About a month ago I arranged to record console output and have captured two panics that are nearly identical.
Does the similarity of the panics mean I have a software rather than hardware problem? I don't want to buy new hardware only to end up with the same issue. If the hardware is OK I should probably try a 2.1 build to see if the newer FreeBSD fixes a problem in the VIA Rhine driver.
Thanks for any advice.
[2012-11-07] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0xc050048 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc09e7381 stack pointer = 0x28:0xe2ca2798 frame pointer = 0x28:0xe2ca27bc 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 = 11 (irq10: vr0) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 11d12h3m39s Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... [2012-12-07] Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode cpuid = 0; apic id = 00 fault virtual address = 0xc050048 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x20:0xc09e7381 stack pointer = 0x28:0xe2ca27d4 frame pointer = 0x28:0xe2ca27f8 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 = 11 (irq10: vr0) trap number = 12 panic: page fault cpuid = 0 Uptime: 29d19h23m5s Cannot dump. Device not defined or unavailable. Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... -
Unfortunately without a backtrace from that panic it's really hard to say. The message it's giving is fairly generic, it could go either way (hardware or software)
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Thanks, Jim. Maybe I'll get lucky with 2.1.
