Subject: Re: sun4m (LX) crashes...
To: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/28/1996 11:06:14
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:50:01 -0400 (EDT)
Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I run 'make build' on my LX, or just 'make depend' in /usr/src,
> it will eventually panic. I don't have a trace yet, but the panic
> message looks like: (one of)
> panic: pv_unlink
> panic: kernel fault
> panic: pmap_page_protect !PG_V
>
> Usually the panic is pmap_page_protect. Also, gcc/make will often
> die with an "illegal instruction" signal.
> This is with either the snapshot kernel, or my own GENERIC_SCSI3.
> I was thinking my new GENERIC_SCSI3 was working better, but it doesn't
> appear to be now. Another "interesting" thing, is that dmesg can't
> recognize my cores in /var/crash. I get a "magic number incorrect"
> or something error, so I'm not sure I have a valid core.
> My hardware:
> Sparc LX
> 24MB
> builtin cgsix
> builtin le
> builtin ESP
> SUN0535 disk
> SBUS 100Mbs Fast Ethernet
> (qec at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x20000 not configured)
>
Are you using NFS? I used to get that alot with NFS.
Would there be an interest in a sun4m binary snapshot?
Neil.
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