From: murrayp@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Doctor Who)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Trap 000e's and minor file system errors.
Keywords: trap 000e chkdsk
Date: 14 Dec 92 09:27:21 GMT
Organization: Lafayette College, Easton PA

I'd noticed that during the past week I'd had a few TRAP 000e's occur, and
it had me worried, even though Checkit said my memory was all okay (if I 
remember right, a trap 000e is memory related...). Still, I continued working
with occasional "the system is stopped" messages happening every once in a    
while, hoping it would disappear as other minor problems have in the past.

This one didn't.

Early Sunday morning, I got another TRAP 000e, and it was the big one,
because now the system wouldn't even boot up completely, trapping before
startup.cmd was able to finish starting up all my TCP/IP drivers.

I thought perhaps chkdsk could shed some light on the problem, and hopefully
fix the difficulty, and it found two errors. It reported 2 problems on my
OS/2 boot partition, formatted HPFS, where:

a minor file system error was corrected...
chkdsk corrected a file allocation error in /delete/control.del.
a minor file system error was corrected...
chkdsk corrected a file allocation error in /tcpip/etc/sendmail.err.

I've remember being told it was a good idea to run chkdsk more than once,
so I ran chkdsk d: /f3 again, and it came up with exactly the same errors.
I thought this odd, so I ran chkdsk a third time. 

The errors came up again. 

I don't know what to think. I've since deleted the sendmail.err file, but the
control.del error still comes up, as does the file system error. 
I thought the error might lie with one of the TCP/IP drivers or something else
loaded up within my startup.cmd, so I attempted a restart, but after I killed
startup.cmd, and the desktop came up, I got another trap 000e. 

I'm really at a loss for what to do now. It would seem rather rash to just re-
install to see if that fixes the problem, but I really can't think of anything
I might have just changed that would have induced such errors. The SoundBlaster
Pro I installed Friday isn't the source of the problems, the trap 000e's were
appearing before that was purchased. I put in a new Maxtor 7213a in mid-
November, but problems didn't begin to crop up until a while after, and the
errors chkdsk is reporting is on my first drive, a Maxtor 7120a. 
I'm running 1024x768x256 on a Diamond Speedstar Plus, and OS/2 is on a 
Blue Dolphin 386/40 with 20MB RAM, Cyrix math coprocessor, Vega motherboard,
AMI BIOS (5/5/91), with an IBM 8-bit 4MBaud token-ring network board.

I have the trap 000e code dump if it would prove useful. 
Also, the trap 000e message wasn't the only "the system is stopped" message
I'd received. The other of the two I'd seen was a "the system detected an 
internal processing error at location" listing some address, plus some other
numbers and letters, plus "CPS, Extent not found.", plus revision numbers and
such. 

Any suggestions as to how to deal with this will be greatly appreciated.
-Pete

Peter Murray
murrayp@lafcol.lafayette.edu
(215)250-8032


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Pete Murray
Lafayette College
murrayp@lafcol.lafayette.edu
mp53%lafayacs@lafibm.lafayette.edu
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