Re: shutdown -p panics on SS10

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 17:51, vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:>
> > On Jun 22, 2023, at 4:17 AM, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Definitely open a PR, with the details from the panic. Testing after
> > shutting down X would be a good data point. It might be interesting to
> > see if the cg6 has the same issue in the ss20, but I'd probably defer
> > that for now on the principle of testing things without unplugging and
> > replugging sbus cards first :)
> >
> > Would it be easy to test a netbsd-10 kernel on one of the ss10s?
> > probably start by just extracting a sparc kernel from
> > http://nyftp.netbsd.org/ a /netbsd10 (plus the modules set which
> > extracts into pathnames containing os release version so will not
> > overwrite the netbsd-9 files)
>
> Thanks for the reply and info David.  Will def. open a PR on this.
>
> So dropping back to console by quitting CTWM and shutting down from there still panics.  So to that extent - it seems that having X ran at any time results in panic.
>
> I tried a nightly 10 kernel + modules.  Same behavior unfortunately (panic on shutdown).
>
> I don’t want to jump to conclusions, but maybe a bug in X itself wrt cgsix ?
>
> Also, no idea how much it will matter since they are both cgsix chipset-wise - but I might be getting my hands on a TGX+ soon (4mb vs. 1mb now).

Not that I expect a different final result, but could you try starting
& exiting X, then "shutdown now", "umount -va", then "halt" ? :)

David