Subject: Re: Crash! Boom! (was Re: README: Calling all beta testers!)
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Condon <david@apk.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/03/1997 09:52:17
I got the same results with a new -current kernel with options SBC, and
likewise with GENERICSBC #50. GENERICSBC #48 was OK. I have this one
COMPAC hard drive that seems to be indigestible for the ncrscsi driver,
which was why I needed an SBC kernel. This is also on an SE/30.

Mason Loring Bliss says:

>My setup:
>
>Mac SE/30, eight megs physical RAM, twenty megs of swap, SBC SCSI driver
>
>Last night I snagged the 1.3_BETA binary snapshot, and compiled a new
>kernel. (My last kernel was semi-early 1.3_ALPHA.)
>
>My untarring went without a hitch, and my new kernel was in place. I
>rebooted, and things seemed to be going well for a bit, until my machine
>dropped into the debugger. For lack of a better way to capture what was on
>the screen, I simply wrote down a lot of it:
>
>root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
>trap: type 0x0, code 0x75d, v 0x8ff003
>kernel: Bus error trap
>pid=0, pc=00088D0C, ps=2204, sfc=1, dfc=1
>Registers:
>	[ I didn't copy this info down - I will if needed. ]
>Kernel stack (000DEC08):
>	[ Ditto - there was too much to write it all down,
>	  although I'll bite the bullet and do it if the
>	  other provided information is insufficient.]
>panic: Bus error
>Stopped at     _Debugger+0x6:     unlk a6
>db> trace
>_Debugger(0,dec40,9362c,93310,4c4b40) + 6
>db> continue
>syncing disks... ncr5380_status: none?
>
>After this, things sort of hung. Hitting the debuggerer switch brought me
>back to a db> prompt, but I couldn't seemingly do anything, so I hit the
>reboot switch.
>
>Now, when I tried booting with my 1.3_ALPHA kernel and the 1.3_BETA
>binaries, things went well. Everything seems to work. (I don't have space
>to keep more than one set of tarfiles around, so I don't have 1.3_ALPHA
>binaries any more. It's 1.3_BETA or nothing. :)
>
>Also, note that I haven't tried a generic kernel. I need a couple changes
>in my kernel, so generic won't suffice for me, although I'll try one if
>it's deemed necessary. (Specifically, I need SLIP's MTU to be 1500, which
>happens in my kernel config.) My kernel compile last night seemed to go
>without a hitch.
>
>Mail and uucp seem to be working, FWIW. I haven't updated /etc in ages, and
>likely won't until 1.3 (final) is finished, but I don't think there's any
>problem there, as my error seems to be happening before the kernel starts
>doing anything with the rest of the world, as far as I can see.
>
>Things are working, so my machine isn't disabled or anything, but I'm
>guessing that this ought to be addressed somehow.
>
>Here's my kernel config file, and a diff file showing the difference
>between my config and the copy of the generic config I have. I assume that
>the generic config file gets updated with my kernel source sups. If not,
>the diff file probably won't be helpful.
>
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>end
>
>--
>Mason Loring Bliss...mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us...www.webtrek.com/mason
>"In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments
> dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore...awake ? sleep : dream;


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