Re: 5.0_RC2 panics on qt0

[George Harvey <fr30%dial.pipex.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:44:26 +0000
George Harvey <fr30%dial.pipex.com@localhost> wrote:

> I've just updated from 5.0_BETA to 5.0_RC2 on my VAX 4000/500A. The
> update process went through smoothly but on rebooting I get:
> 
> qt0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764 ipl 17
> panic: Segv in kernel mode: pc 801fcc25 addr 1c
> Stopped in pid 0.1 (system) at netbsd:trap+0x697: nop
> 
> I suspect this is the same problem I saw with with the beta release
> and which was fixed by the patch suggested by Havard Eidnes. 

One kernel compile later...

I can confirm that Havard's patch does fix it and I now have a working
qt0.

Something I noticed while timing the kernel compile is that I get
ridiculous values for the user and sys times. This happens both with
/usr/bin/time and with the built-in time in bash. For example, timing a
compile of Tcl I got:

     2368.25 real 2133439630.70 user 2133437492.47 sys

The real time looks right but user and sys are clearly not. I haven't
got any other 5.0 systems to compare with so I don't know if this is VAX
specific or not.

George