In article <199604150726.KAA11661@pyy.jmp.fi> jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi (Jukka Marin) writes:
>Dear All,
>
>I'm having problems with NetBSD -current on an SS1+.  The machine seems to
>crash/hang every now and then.  I get no core dump and the system doesn't
>even drop to the boot monitor (not even if I send a break to the serial
>port (which I'm using for the console).
>
>Last night, the lock-up occurred while un-tarring the 960323 sources (I had
>several tar processes running simultaneously, reading over NFS and writing
>to a local disk).  The only way I could get the machine up again was a power-
>cycle.  (What is the SS1 watchdog supposed to do in situations like this?)
>
>Another problem: I can't build libc.  When I try to make in src/lib/libc,
>I get that huge list of filenames and then signal 11.  I have upgraded my
>kernel to 960323 and would like to upgrade the libs and bins as well, but
>it seems I can't.  I already rebuilt sh and make, no help.
>
>Any help greatly appreciated.
>

At least you can boot. I get the same weirdness: either a trap, or a watchdog
timer reset as soon as the boot process tries to write to a filesystem on
an ELC.

christos