> From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
>
> > Has anyone seen problems with alphas mysteriously dying after a couple of
> > dozen hours of operation? I'm seeing panics to the effect of "vref instead
> > of vget" (or perhaps the other way around) on my machine. This is with a
> > stock 1.4 installation, GENERIC kernel, etc.. I am using a DE450 Tulip
> > ethernet card and NCR SCSI card, and no video card.
>
> What you're seeing is the panic in the vref() call in sys/kern/vfs_subr.c.
> Code somewhere called vref when it should have called vget.
>
> Do you get dropped into ddb when this happens (or do you reboot)?
>
> If so, try the 't' command. I think it worked in ddb in 1.4 on alpha. :-)
>
> You should see a list of routines. Copy them down (if you get them) and
> EMail them to us.

The 1.4 kernel doesn't have the stack backtrace code, but you can
grab a 1.4D GENERIC from:

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/misc/netbsd.gz

Ross.Harvey@Computer.Org