Subject: Re: kern/32224 (NetBSD 3.99.13 doesn't boot because of pmap errors)
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/12/2005 23:05:03
The following reply was made to PR kern/32224; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
To: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32224 (NetBSD 3.99.13 doesn't boot because of pmap errors)
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:04:10 +0000
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:57:03AM +0900, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > I've tried to figured out at what point during system startup the messages
> > start to appear by manually invoking all scripts in "/etc/rc.d". The
> > messages start to appear when "/etc/rc.d/savecore" is run. They stop
> > as soon as I abort the script.
>
> does it happen only when you have a dump to save,
Apparently. I've saved the last crash dump this morning and "savecore"
doesn't trigger the "pmap" errors at the monent/
> or does it happen even after savecore -c?
Not sure. I think I tried that at some point but cannot remember the
result.
> can you trigger it by dd with bs=1m?
I tried like this ...
tron@lyssa:~tron#dd if=/dev/rwd0b bs=1m of=/dev/zero
dd: /dev/rwd0b: Invalid argument
2583+1 records in
2583+1 records out
2709504000 bytes transferred in 53.778 secs (50383130 bytes/sec)
tron@lyssa:/scratch/lyssa/XFree86-4.5.0>dd if=XFree86-4.5.0-src-1.tgz of=/dev/null bs=1m
10+1 records in
10+1 records out
10507331 bytes transferred in 0.230 secs (45684047 bytes/sec)
... but nothing happend.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://scheler.de/~matthias/