panic: page fault in kernel (3B1/3.51m)

[Rex Fowler]

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>
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