Re: Opera from pkgsrc 2011Q1 crashes whole system, NetBSD 5.1

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Bartek Krawczyk
<bbartlomiej.mail%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi, I have installed NetBSD 5.1 and yesterday pkgsrc 2011Q1. I have
> installed www/opera and when I try to start it, it freezes and then
> crashes whole system. I am new to NetBSD so please give me some
> information what can I look for. There is no error in the terminal,
> just te CPU usage jumps to 100% and after that system freezes and
> restarts.

That could be a hardware problem.

Start with:

1. uname -a
2. See if there are any files in /var/crash/

If you can recreate it, log in as root and do this:

sysctl -w kern.dump_on_panic=1

Then recreate the problem. This is supposed to write a crash dump to
/var/crash/ before restarting. After it restarts, check /var/crash
again and see if there is a dump in there. If so, send a note to the
list for your particular architecture, maybe port-i386%netbsd.org@localhost or
port-amd64%netbsd.org@localhost or whatever you are running.

Again, it's probably likely that you're hitting a bad spot in memory
or something like this. Or maybe it's video hardware related.

Andy