I have a VaxStation 3100 which was happily running NetBSD up to
including 1.6.1.
Yesterday I upgraded to 1.6.2 by getting the tgz archives and taring
them (except for etc.tgz) into /.
Now when I boot with a 1.6.2 kernel, either the generic one or a custom
comiled one some apps core dump on
 the spot. When I boot up with the old 1.6.1 kernel things work fine.

Here are my dmesg:

NetBSD 1.6.2 (NARA) #0: Mon Mar  8 22:25:22 CET 2004
    root@nara:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/NARA

VAXstation 3100/m{30,40}
cpu: KA41/42
cpu: Enabling primary cache, secondary cache
total memory = 16264 KB
avail memory = 12444 KB
using 228 buffers containing 912 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
vsbus0 at mainbus0
vsbus0: interrupt mask 8
le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 120 ipl 14 maskbit 5 buf
0x3cb000-0x3dafff
le0: address 08:00:2b:0f:e6:86
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 304 ipl 14 maskbit 6
dz0: 4 lines
lkkbd0 at dz0
wskbd0 at lkkbd0 (mux ignored): console keyboard
lkms0 at dz0
wsmouse0 at lkms0 (mux ignored)
si0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 770 ipl 14 maskbit 1
si0: NCR5380, SCSI ID 6
scsibus0 at si0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
smg0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200f0000 vec 104 ipl 14 maskbit 3
wsdisplay0 at smg0 (kbdmux ignored): console (128x57, vt100 emulation),
using wskbd
0
wsdisplay0: screen 1-7 added (128x57, vt100 emulation)
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <DEC, RZ23     (C) DEC, 0A18> SCSI1
0/direct fixed
sd0: 100 MB, 776 cyl, 8 head, 33 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 204864 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
sd1 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <FUJITSU, M2624S-512, 0202> SCSI1
0/direct fixed
sd1: 496 MB, 1429 cyl, 11 head, 64 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1015812 sectors
sd1: async, 8-bit transfers
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs

In messages I find
Mar  8 22:37:26 nara savecore: /netbsd: _dumpdev not in namelist

the following core files I could provide if makes sense:
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  184320 Mar  8 22:37 awk.core
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  163840 Mar  8 22:41 getty.core
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  552960 Mar  8 22:38 ntpd.core
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  139264 Mar  8 22:38 sed.core
-rw-------  1 root  wheel  327680 Mar  8 22:38 sshd.core

any suggestions what goes wrong or what to look for would be highly
appreciated.

Georg

PS: I would prefer if you could put im in Cc: of any related discussion
to the port-vax mailing list. Thanks.
PS2: do I have to update boot sectors? Could that be an issue?




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