Subject: another interesting observation...
To: None <port-arc@netbsd.org, port-mips@netbsd.org>
From: Mark Abene <phiber@radicalmedia.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 02/08/2001 16:19:58
Something else I noticed... Init is trying to execve, but the more I try
booting up, the less likely it seems that init's child shows up in the
process table in DDB. And I haven't been getting any output on the console,
nor has the access time changed on /dev/console.
db> ps
PID PPID PGRP UID S FLAGS COMMAND WAIT
9 0 0 0 3 0x20204 aiodoned aiodone
8 0 0 0 3 0x20204 ioflush syncer
7 0 0 0 3 0x20204 reaper reaper
6 0 0 0 3 0x20204 pagedaemon pgdaemo
5 0 0 0 3 0x20284 nfsio nfsidl
4 0 0 0 3 0x20284 nfsio nfsidl
3 0 0 0 2 0x20204 nfsio
2 0 0 0 3 0x20284 nfsio nfsidl
>1 0 0 0 7 0x4004 init
0 -1 0 0 3 0x20204 swapper schedul
The flags for init are telling; the process is loaded into memory (0x4), and
the process called execve (0x4000). So init is trying to fork and call execve,
but nothing's happening. Very strange.
-Mark