Re: install/25026 (core dump during NetBSD-2-0 install on macppc)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/25026; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/25026 (core dump during NetBSD-2-0 install on macppc)
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 07:48:43 +0000

 Gnats apparently lost this mail, trying again:
 
 From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 To: install-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        juergent%mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de@localhost
 Subject: Re: install/25026 (core dump during NetBSD-2-0 install on macppc)
 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:44:17 +0000
 
 On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:15:20PM +0000, dholland%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  > Submitter can't test; unfortunately, nothing much has changed in tset since
  > 2.0, and the problem probably still exists. In fact, it probably exists even
  > if sysinst doesn't tickle it any more. Someone should beat on tset and find
  > what makes it dump core... until then the PR should stay open.
 
 On second thought (and reading more carefully), the tset core is
 probably not related - if sysinst dumped core, as appears to have been
 the case, it should have left a sysinst core if it was going to leave
 one at all.
 
 The most likely cause (especially of SIGILL) in that case is probably
 PPC exception handling bugs on some specific hardware rev. There have
 been a lot of fixes since, but I think it would be best to leave the
 PR open anyway, in case anyone else has a PowerMac 7600/132 and wants
 to test.
 
 I will take a look at tset in any event.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost