Re: SS 5 freezes without warning with NetBSD 5.0.2

[Frank WiÃmann <frank.wissmann41%web.de@localhost>]

Bill Roman schrieb:
> You might be running into the same issue I saw with 5.0 and 5.0.1 (I
> haven't tried 5.0.2 yet, shame on me!).  The generic kernel had some
> issues with scrolling the console.  If I did anything that scrolled more
> than a few long lines, it would freeze the console (but everything else
> was still running, I could ssh in for example).  Search the list
> archives for "NetBSD 5.0 and SPARCstation 5 not a lucky combination",
> last July or so, there's some discussion of the issue.
>
> I built a new kernel with wscons enabled, and this bypassed the problem.
> If you're interested, I'll send you the config file I used; besides
> enabling wscons I disabled all the stuff that doesn't apply to SS5.
>
> One of these days maybe I'll dig out a serial cable, wire my Ultra 10 to
> the SS5 for debugging, and see if I can puzzle this out, if someone more
> knowledgeable doesn't beat me to it.
>
> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 21:13 +0200, Frank WiÃmann wrote:
> > Hi, listeners!
> > As described in the subject I have the problem of a freshly installed 
> > NetBSD freezing the console on my SS5. This happens on different 
> > occasions, e. g. when unpaccking the source tree with "tar -xzvf 
> > src.tar.gz" or when using "man". I can't predict when it happens and I 
> > don't know where to look as I'm new to this OS and platform. Can anybody 
> > give me a clue?
> >
> > Greetings Frank

Hi, Bill!
As I figured out it might have been a misconfigured console. I enabled 
wscons in rc.conf but didn't really configure it because i wanted to 
read the manpage first which now freezes the machine when called. I 
should disable it. Do I need to build a custom kernel to use it? And, 
yes, it would be fine to see your config file.

Greetings Frank

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