On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:49:56PM +0200, Thilo.Manske@HEH.Uni-Oldenburg.DE wrote:
> >Description:
> Since about ~three (or maybe even more) months, every current kernel I made with and for
> System 1 (VT1300) dies during boot with something like:
> 
> [...]
> Creating runtime link editor directory cache.
> Clearing /tmp.
> Starting timed.
> panic: kernel stack invalid
> Stopped in pid 1 (init) at      _trap+0x138:    tstl    64(r8)
> db> trace/t
> Process 1
>   PCB contents:
>         KSP = 0x85710e98
>         ESP = 0x8570f064
>         SSP = 0x80271200
>         USP = 0x7ffffc70
>         R[00] = 0x85723000    R[06] = 0x8038f000
>         R[01] = 0x0002b918    R[07] = 0x00000000
>         R[02] = 0x804021c0    R[08] = 0x8038f000
>         R[03] = 0x004fb000    R[09] = 0x80271200
>         R[04] = 0x00000000    R[10] = 0x8038f000
>         R[05] = 0x00000000    R[11] = 0x00000000
>         AP = 0x85710ecc
>         FP = 0x85710ea0
>         PC = 0x80023674
>         PSL = 0xdf0008
>         Trap frame pointer: 0x85710fb4
> Stack traceback :
> 0x85710ea0: bpendtsleep+0x0(0x8038f000,0x120,0x8001b57d,0x0,0x0)
> 0x85710ed4: _sys_wait4+0x2b2(0x8038f000,0x85710f60,0xc)
> 0x85710f1c: _syscall+0xf5(0x7ffffc70)
> 
> Because kernel compilation needs a week now (I don't know why, it used to
> be a day with 1.5ALPHA*/BETA), I didn't investigate that further.
> (Sorry that I can't give a precise date when exactly this starts to happen,
> I accidently deleted my last working current kernel :-( .)

FYI, I get this also on my MVII/3300. I can't give an exact date either,
but it's been several months. I'm still running 1.5 userland and boot blocks

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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