Subject: Re: Trap in NetBSD-current/pmax
To: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 11/07/2000 13:39:26
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:

> i've compiled a previously perfectly working NetBSD-current configuration
> for a Maxine on today's kernel sources. It all compiled OK but when
> started it reports a trap on an instruction fetch in kernel mode.
> 
> Sadly I dont have the details here, but the trap occured in proccesId 5,
> `init' just after copying the bootflags and the init string. I then
> compiled in the DEBUG option and the kernel debugger but help.... even
> with the enter kernel debugger at a panic flag, it keeps repeating itself
> and eventualy hangs when running out of stack?
> 
> anybody have a clue?

  Let me guess:  you are running with a graphics console?

  A recent change to the tty line discipline has broken the pmax graphics
console.  Serial console still works, which is one work-around.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
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Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA