On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 09:23:33 -0700
> From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
> To: Zoltan ZSIDO <zsido@westel900.net>, port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Install problems
>
> At 11:50 AM 4/1/01 +0200, Zoltan ZSIDO wrote:
> >Recently I was able to install 1.4.3 on a KA650 with 32MB RAM system, but
> >when it boots, everything die with a SIGSEGV. During the boot when qe0 has
> >been initialized the 'ring buffer overrun' message appears many times,
> >then fsck die, then sh die many times ... and the boot process gives up.
>
> The ring buffer overruns are normal, but the massive SEGVs are not. There
> are several ways to do this:
>          1) Install the wrong kernel (this sounds like your problem)

Kernel was in the NetBSD-1.4.3 tarball as kern.tgz. Is it wrong in the
distribution?(!)

>          2) You've got a bad memory page that only gets hit once
>             the full up system is coming up.

show mem doesn't show any bad pages. Utrix work fine on that machine.

>          3) Your libc.so file is corrupted. (so your having disk
>             problems)

Assume libc.so is in the base.tgz which is from the same NetBSD-1.4.3
tree.

>
>
> I run 1.4.2 on a KA650 in a BA123 and caveat the ring overruns (which I've
> commented out of the driver) it runs fine.
>

Yesterday evening I'v installed that version, and it is working for me
too. Now it compiles a kernel from the 1.4.3 distribution.

Zoltan