Subject: Re: Weird nfs-root bug on powermac
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From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/09/2002 09:30:23
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I've been faced with a strange bug recently. I'm running a 1.5ZC kernel
> from last week on my Beige G3. I have root on nfs.
>
> Whenever I first boot in the morning, or if I reboot after the system has
> been up for a while, rc.order core dumps. The system does not come up in a
> usable state in that case. Then getty complains that it can't find
> /dev/tty00 or /dev/ttyE0, which should be there.
>
> If I hit the power (or drop into ddb now that I can do it again) and
> reboot, everything comes up fine.

Matt made a change to the pmap code, and this problem seems to be gone. I
haven't had any new core files that I've noticed. :-)

Take care,

Bill