Subject: Re: "couldn't ping cpus" error when starting X [solved?]
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.org>
From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/18/2005 11:34:57
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:04:48PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> I've seen it once more since then. The box will run for weeks or months
> between occurances, though at the time it would last hours at most. I
> also have two boxes running into this issue. Oddly, both were running
> with the case top off at the time ... perhaps a heat-related issue?
Update:
I started pulling RAM one stick at a time. The 4th stick I pulled
appeared to cure the problem ... I replaced it with a spare 16MB stick I
had (gaining 8MB overall in the process) and it seems to be stable since
then.
-T
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