Problems with NetBSD 5.0 BETA

[Tero Kivinen <kivinen%iki.fi@localhost>]

I have been trying to put NetBSD 5.0 beta up, but I have had so my
problems, that I think that either my hardware is broken, or there is
something seriously wrong...

First problem is that when I try to compile the NetBSD I get
segmentation fault - internal compiler errors on different files when
compiling. When I continue using "./build.sh -u -x release" it usually
goes forward and after 3-4 times I get everything compiled. I cvs
updated the source code 2009-01-05, compiled everything (by trying
enough times to get it done), installed kernel, rebooted, installed
userland, rebooted, and tried again and I am still getting those.

Has anybody seen any of that kind of behavior. If not I guess there is
something wrong with my hardware (it is AMD x2 64 but I needed to
disable ACPI and SMP to get interrupts working on my adaptec scsi card
I have attached to it, the machine is booting and running from ATA
disks using raidframe).

Another problem which might actually be actual bug, but I do not want
to submit bug report if it is just my hardware faulting there too is
following:

Boot up, mount root (using raidframe, not sure if that is related)
without softdep, log in, remount root with softdep (mount -o softdep
-u /), run vi /etc/fstab to add softdep option there, and get instant
kernel panic. I have multiple crash dumps of this so I can submit bug
report, but would like to rule out hardware first.

So if someone has newish (from this year) NetBSD 5.0 running, try
changing root-fs to not have softdep option on boot, reboot, login,
remount root-fs to have softdep option using "mount -o softdep -u /",
run vi /etc/fstab and see if kernel panics. If it does or does not,
send email to me, so I will know whether to submit bug report or
not...
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