Subject: first crash on 1.3.2 in a long time...
To: NetBSD/sparc Discussion List <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/20/1998 22:57:14
Well, I just went through the first crash I've had in a long time on my
SS2.  I think the uptime was near 28 days this time.  This one was
different than all the past ones too.

It was a "double" panic:

	trap type 0x7: pc=.....
	panic: alignment fault
	syncing disks... trap type 0x7: ...
	panic: alignment fault
	
and then there was a stack backtrace

The console (serial console) was hung and a power cycle was necessary.
(This is what was different -- all the past ones were simultaneous
reboots -- I didn't get a chance to see what was on the console).

There was no crash dump (and I didn't expect one after the second panic
during the sync).

My kernel config file has:

	makeoptions	DEBUG="-g"
	options 	DIAGNOSTIC	# extra kernel sanity checking

but none of DDB, DEBUG, KGDB, et al. so I'm not sure why I got the
backtrace and why it just hung.

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