Subject: Re: Problems with current
To: Alex Zepeda <zipzippy@sonic.net>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/07/2003 17:59:23
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:09:47PM -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:08:34PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> 
> > hmm, so what's the stack trace when it panics?
> 
> Didn't write down the trace (you know.. I still can't get this machine to 
> give me a crash dump).

crash dumps aren't implemented on powerpc, alas.


> But the message I got was about a failed assertation (sdp != NULL) in
> uvm_swap.c line 1607 (current process was 'reaper').

ok, it's just freeing an address space.   a stack trace won't tell us much,
the corruption no doubt happened much earlier.


> Given that working with the sound driver meant I was rebooting constantly,
> I haven't really felt a huge desire to go back to the sources from the
> 29th.  Especially since the sources from the 31st refused to even boot
> (didn't even get out of the OF loader).  At first I thought that was a bad
> CD-RW disc, but even netbooting it did the same thing.

I don't blame ya.  :-/

-Chuck