The machine I was just using was a Pentium133 with 80Megs ram. I was running OpenBSD2.9, which was freshly installed, and Perl V5.6.0 with whatever version of CPAN.pm that ships with it. I was trying to install DBD::CSV, when the badness started:

CPAN.pm: Going to build J/JW/JWIED/Text_CSV_XS-0.22.tar.tgz
Checking if your kit is complete...
looks good
uvm_fault(0xe0481f4c, 0xe000e000, 0, 1) -> 1
kernel: page fault trap, code=0
stopped at         _pmap_copy_page+0x327:cmpl    %esi,0x4(%edx)
ddb>

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the ddb> acted like a shell prompt, but would only respond with command not found to anything I typed. (I tried exit, quit, halt...)

The machine is rebooting now. Can anyone decipher that mess? Is there anything I can do to prevent it? It may have been some sort of hardware error, it is an old computer that once had a soya sauce packet dropped inside it.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Michael
Sorry if the error message has typos, I had to write it down and then retype it.

In reply to nasty problems with CPAN.pm and OpenBSD2.9 by coolmichael

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