Our two webcache machines seem to be suffering intermittant reboots as a 
result of kernal panics. We are running NetBSD 1.3.2 on Tyan Tiger II
boards with 512Mb memory and 333Mhz pentium II's. There is an ide system 
disk and 2 Adaptec 2944 SCSI controllers with 6 4Gb disks each and a
100BT network interface (de0). I've avoided posting the bootup messages
as they are rather long !

We normally run a custom kernel with the pciide code and pcvt console,
but the same results occur with a generic kernel and in fact we are
currently running both systems with a generic+pcvt kernel.

When a panic occurs absolutely nothing about it is written the message log,
but we often get a core dump. A quick look with gdb shows:

root(webcache2)crash$ gdb netbsd.2
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GDB 4.16 (i386-netbsd), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) target kcore netbsd.2.core
panic: trap
#0  0x6 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x6 in ?? ()
#1  0xf01e5d3b in cpu_reboot ()
#2  0xf013a949 in panic ()
#3  0xf01ec5d6 in trap ()
(gdb) q

I have had a quick look at the source code around this this area, but it
is not very enlightening. Any suggestions as to how to pin down this 
problem would be appreciated. 

Dave 
 

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