Subject: What does this error mean?
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/30/1997 23:27:53
SPARCstation 10 running 1.2:

ERROR: got NMI with sfsr=0x0, sfva=0xf201c, afsr=0x0, afaddr=0x0. Retrying...

The line was repeated twice.

Also, what's causing random processes to core dump with various signals
(4,10,11) to name a few? 

Why can't I compile a kernel? repeat 100 make just gives me a steady stream
of compiles, then core dumps. Right now it's hung on one of the nfs files,
it can't compile it because it gets core dumps.

Oh look, make clean just won't work. More core dumps.

And my networking is broken as well. The ethernet just won't work. If I
netboot the machine, it works fine. If, while netbooted, I fsck, then the
ethernet goes straight to hell (spewing errors with just about every keypress).
If I boot from the disk then ethernet is totally nonfunctional (errors).

A little while ago ppp just up and quit. Rebooting doesn't help. 

What causes a le0: memory error?

I just got the machine for Christmas. It ran SunOS 4 with no problems, and
Solaris was fine enough to throw NetBSD onto the disk. Then again, that was
running from the other disk. Could there be a problem with this disk? Then
again, I haven't started swapping yet. 

Can somebody at least tell me if my machine has a physical problem, or is
1.2 for the 4m just unstable? It passes all of it's self tests.

Is a more stable version out there? I can't compile it myself, so I'd need a
snapshot.

Am I the only one having these problems?

C'mon, help me out here, please. Thanks!
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