Subject: Re: macppc port "unstable" in -current
To: Martin J. Laubach <mjl@NetBSD.org>
From: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/17/2004 14:43:22
Hi,
> The symptoms I'm seeing are either:
>
> - random core dumps (sh, sed, awk during package builds)
> - complete lockups (I can get to ddb, and it always has a similar
> stack trace, something with memcpy() in it -- so it sounds very
> much like a cache invalidation that doesn't happen and the same
> page is brought in again and again, or something similar)
>
> I can pretty much reproduce the "system hangs" scenario by doing
> a make build -- and I have disabled X so it's possible to get into
> ddb. If someone can walk me through what I should do, I'm game...
Sorry if I haven't paid close enough attention, but what is the PR number,
and/or what hardware are you running? Is it one of the m68030 systems with
L2 cache which are being discussed?
John Klos