On Sat, 17 May 1997 18:37:21 +0300 
 Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi> wrote:

 > This seems to be repeatable.  Whenever my wife is playing with Netscape,
 > my machine crashes with the same eip and cs values:
 > 
 > fatal privileged instruction fault in supervisor mode
 > trap type 0 code 0 eip f81b0cc0 cs f81b0008 eflags 10246 cr2 1b3348 cpl e000d060
 > panic: trap
 > 
 > The only running processes were des and netscape.
 > 
 > I understand that people aren't too interested in what's going on on a 1.2
 > system, but I'd still like to know how to fix this problem.  I would upgrade
 > to -current if I knew it worked well - but I see so many problem reports
 > every day that I just can't do the upgrade yet. :-I

...well, for starters, building a kernel with "makeoptions DEBUG=-g"
would allow you to get some meaningful information with gdb post-mortem.

Privileged instruction fault... is that an illegal instruction in i386-speak?
(Sigh, I find m68k traps so much more straight-forward :-)  It's not likely
that something is scribbling over kernel text; that would cause a page
fault trap.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
NASA Ames Research Center                               Home: 408.866.1912
NAS: M/S 258-6                                          Work: 415.604.0935
Moffett Field, CA 94035                                Pager: 415.428.6939