Subject: Re: State of -current?
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/28/2007 16:46:55
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:00:46 +0200
Tobias Nygren <tnn@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Anyone else having problems with -current on sparc64? My E450 was
> running 4.99.20 with an uptime of 57 days. Today I decided to upgrade
> to 4.99.25 but was greeted with a boot process that stalled at
> "Starting rarpd". I broke into DDB. Running "ps" gave me a list
> of half of the processes followed by a data access exception.
> I guess there are alot of things going on with the locking changes;
> I just want to know if there are any known sparc64 issues.

Looks like this was caused by pilot error. After a toolchain
upgrade and purging of some local patches my system appears to
be stable again. Sorry about the noise.

-T