Hi, 
I have a micovaxII 3300, booting diskless of another NetBSD machine.
For some time I've not been able to get a working -current kernel.
A kernel compiled 4 days ago hang once getty is started; login from
network is impossible; the sshd process doesn't anserw.
The machine is still anserws to ping, though.

A previous 1.5X kernel would come up multiuser but once a user logged
in, any command would fail with 'no more processes' (or something like
that, the kernel didn't have enouth resources to start a new process).

The last working kernel I have is 1.5V:
NetBSD 1.5V (CORDOUAN) #5: Mon May 14 18:15:22 MEST 2001
    bouyer@cordouan.antioche.eu.org:/home/sources-vax/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/CORDOUAN


I suspect that the kernel doesn't have enouth resources to start the required
number of processes in multiuser mode.
The machine has 12M RAM and a 64K swap file in /

Here is the complete boot messages of the machine, in case it helps.
Loading system software.
(BOOT/R5:0 ESA0)



  2..
-ESA0
  1..0..


>> NetBSD/vax boot [Jun 22 2000 07:42:38] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 3
Press '?' for help
> boot
Trying BOOTP
Using IP address: 132.227.62.4
myip: cordouan (132.227.62.4)
root addr=132.227.62.3 path=/home/vax
807164+19224+133080+[55968+64625] total=0x107b05
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5Y (CORDOUAN) #0: Tue Oct  9 22:24:22 MEST 2001
    bouyer@cordouan.antioche.eu.org:/home/sources-vax/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/CORDOUAN

MicroVAX 3300/3400
cpu: KA640, CVAX microcode rev 5 Firmware rev 83
total memory = 12232 KB
avail memory = 9360 KB
using 178 buffers containing 712 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
ibus0 at mainbus0
le0 at ibus0: vec 324 ipl 17
le0: address 08:00:2b:13:bf:4e
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
uba0 at ibus0: Q22
dhu0 at uba0 csr 160440 vec 300 ipl 17
dhu0: rom(1) version 17 rom(0) version 18
dhu0: DHV-11
mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 3 model 14
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK70
boot device: le0
root on le0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: BOOTP next-server: 132.227.62.3
nfs_boot: my_name=cordouan
nfs_boot: my_addr=132.227.62.4
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.240
root on juliard.antioche.eu.org:/home/vax
root file system type: nfs
Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
setting tty flags
starting network
hostname: cordouan.antioche.eu.org
configuring network interfaces: le0.
add net default: gateway antioche-gw
adding interface aliases:
net.inet6.ip6.forwarding: 0 -> 0
net.inet6.ip6.accept_rtadv: 0 -> 0
swapctl: adding /swap as swap device at priority 0
building databases...
starting system logger
Setting date via ntp.
Oct 10 11:53:07 cordouan ntpdate[60]: no server suitable for synchronization found
starting rpc daemons: rpcbind.
creating runtime link editor directory cache.
setting securelevel: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
checking quotas: done.
clearing /tmp
updating motd.
standard daemons: update cron.
starting network daemons: xntpd
pid 90 (xntpd): sig 4: type 1, code 0, pc 1b97c, psl 3c00000
root: WARNING: /etc/sendmail.cf not readable;  sendmail not started.
 inetd.
starting local daemons: sshd.
Wed Oct 10 11:53:47 MEST 2001

NetBSD/vax (cordouan.antioche.eu.org) (console)

login: ~
?02 EXT HLT
        PC = 800B4652
>>>boot
(BOOT/R5:0 ESA0)


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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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