Subject: Re: "everything dumps core" - clue?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Scott Ellis <scotte@netbsd.warped.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 02/12/1997 14:19:38
On Feb 02, 1997 at 08:21:51AM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> However, since then, three times, upon rebooting I've gotten "getty
> repeating too rapidly on /dev/kd" (or whatever the exact message is),
> and upon rebooting again there's a getty.core in /.  To me, this looks
> exactly like a typical "everything dumps core".  HOWEVER, if it makes
> it up to the point of giving me a login prompt, it has never - yet, at
> least - gone into "everything dumps core" mode after that.  (This
> applies to reboots of kernels without the sc driver in them; the kernel
> with the sc driver is liable to be flaky anyway, I figure, at this
> point.)  I suppose I should beat on it - maybe do a "make build" - and
> see if I can provoke it....
> 

The "getty repeating too quickly" problem is something I've experienced
on my 3/110 with an si controller, if I don't use options=5.  Getty
will eventually "catch", and work fine, and the system would run stable
for some time, and then do the 'everything dumps core' trick.

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