The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/30629; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
To: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-sparc/30629
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:39:46 +0100

 	Hello,
 
 I can reproduce the problem sporadically on my SPARCstation 20. The "host"
 and "nslookup" commands occasionally crash on the first attempt to start
 them but work find on the second attempt. Here's te "dmesg" of my
 machine:
 
 Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
     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 3.99.21 (IVANOVA) #0: Sat Jun 10 19:31:13 BST 2006
 	tron@colwyn.zhadum.org.uk:/export/scratch/tron/obj/sys/arch/sparc/compile/IVANOVA
 total memory = 319 MB
 avail memory = 309 MB
 timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
 bootpath: /iommu@f,e0000000/sbus@f,e0001000/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd@3,0
 mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-20: hostid 7273ea74
 cpu0 at mainbus0: RT620/625 @ 100 MHz, on-chip FPU
 cpu0: 256K byte write-back, 64 bytes/line, sw flush: cache enabled
 obio0 at mainbus0
 clock0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x200000: mk48t08
 timer0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x300000: delay constant 48, frequency = 1000000 Hz
 timecounter: Timecounter "timer-counter" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
 timecounter: selected timecounter "timer-counter" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
 zs0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x100000 level 12 softpri 6
 zstty0 at zs0 channel 0 (console i/o)
 zstty1 at zs0 channel 1
 zs1 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 12 softpri 6
 kbd0 at zs1 channel 0: baud rate 1200
 ms0 at zs1 channel 1: baud rate 1200
 SUNW,fdtwo at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x700000 level 11 not configured
 auxreg0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x800000
 power0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0xa01000 level 2
 iommu0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xe0000000: version 0x1/0x1, page-size 4096, range 64MB
 sbus0 at iommu0: clock = 25 MHz
 dma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400000: DMA rev 2
 esp0 at dma0 slot 15 offset 0x800000 level 4: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
 scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
 ledma0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x400010: DMA rev 2
 le0 at ledma0 slot 15 offset 0xc00000 level 6: address 08:00:20:xx:xx:xx
 le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
 bpp0 at sbus0 slot 15 offset 0x4800000 level 2 (ipl 3): DMA rev 2
 dbri0 at sbus0 slot 14 offset 0x10000 level 9: rev e
 hme0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x8c00000 level 4 (ipl 7): Sun Happy Meal Ethernet (SUNW,qfe)
 hme0: Ethernet address 08:00:20:xx:xx:xx
 qsphy0 at hme0 phy 1: QS6612 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
 qsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 hme1 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x8c10000 level 4 (ipl 7): Sun Happy Meal Ethernet (SUNW,qfe)
 hme1: Ethernet address 08:00:20:xx:xx:xx
 qsphy1 at hme1 phy 1: QS6612 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
 qsphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 hme2 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x8c20000 level 4 (ipl 7): Sun Happy Meal Ethernet (SUNW,qfe)
 hme2: Ethernet address 08:00:20:xx:xx:xx
 qsphy2 at hme2 phy 1: QS6612 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
 qsphy2: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 hme3 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x8c30000 level 4 (ipl 7): Sun Happy Meal Ethernet (SUNW,qfe)
 hme3: Ethernet address 08:00:20:xx:xx:xx
 qsphy3 at hme3 phy 1: QS6612 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
 qsphy3: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 eccmemctl0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0x0: version 0x0/0x2
 timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
 dbri0: speakerbox detected
 dbri0: cs4215 ver 2 found at offset 8
 audio0 at dbri0: missing method
 IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
 scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
 sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <HP, 9.10GB A 80-S94C, S94C> disk fixed
 sd0: 8678 MB, 8387 cyl, 10 head, 211 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 17773524 sectors
 sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
 cd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, XM-4101TASUNSLCD, 1084> cdrom removable
 cd0: async, 8-bit transfers
 root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
 root file system type: ffs
 
 	Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/