Re: port-i386/42966: kernel built from today's netbsd-5 crashes

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/42966; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-i386/42966: kernel built from today's netbsd-5 crashes
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:34:08 +0000

 On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 06:15:07PM +0000, Anne Bennett wrote:
  >  It stopped when I rebooted into the old kernel under the name
  >  /netbsd.  If it had happened only once I would have written it off,
  >  but the sequence of events was:
  >  
  > [snip]
 
 That sounds like the crash deterministically left the hardware in a
 bogus state. That's far more likely than anything being sensitive to
 the kernel name. (Ideally this kind of thing wouldn't happen, but I
 wouldn't worry about it as long as it goes away after a reset.)
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost