Re: netbsd-11 vs. SUNW,qfe; hmeX: device timeout?

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost>]

On Mon, 25 May 2026, John D. Baker wrote:

> I guess I'll be backing up to 9.1 (and if necessary 9.0 or even back to
> 8.3) to see where it starts behaving again.

It appears 9.0 is stable on the qfe card and survived multiple rounds of
my "tar tzvpf ..." test without incurring any device timeouts, including
re-unpacking the sets over the top of itself.

Now, trying to update along netbsd-9 in the "9.0_STABLE" era is being
problematic.  I cannot even build 'nbmake' on my 10.1_STABLE/amd64 build
host.  It complains about:

[...]
cc -o nbmake *.o  
ld: buf.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: compat.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: cond.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): f# mk.conf
irst defined here
ld: dir.o:(.bss+0x8): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: for.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: hash.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: job.o:(.bss+0x20): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: main.o:(.bss+0x490): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: make.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: make_malloc.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: parse.o:(.bss+0x18): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: str.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: suff.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: targ.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: trace.o:(.bss+0x8): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: util.o:(.bss+0x0): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here
ld: var.o:(.bss+0x28): multiple definition of `debug_file'; arch.o:(.bss+0x0): first defined here

ERROR: Build of nbmake failed
*** BUILD ABORTED ***

$ pwd
/x/nbsd-tst/src

$ ./build.sh -U -m sparc -T /r0/build/netbsd-9/tools/amd64 \
  -O /r0/build/netbsd-9/obj/sparc -D /r0/build/netbsd-9/DEST/sparc \
  -R /r0/build/netbsd-9/REL -j 5 \
  -V MAKECONF=/x/nbsd-tst/src/../mk.conf -V MKCROSSGDB=yes \
  tools release iso-image


It previously built along 9.2_STABLE w/o problems.  Am I going to have
to set up a 9.x build host to build 9.0_STABLE/sparc?

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