Subject: Rehash of NetBSD/sgimips problems - 2-0 Branch build
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: sgimips NetBSD list <sgimips@mrynet.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 05/17/2004 21:32:04
I just built and installed a fresh build of the NetBSD-2-0 branch to
compare it to problems I experience with the Main branch. The install
is on an SGI O2 R5K machine.
The following has been noted so far:
1) It has the same sshd problems that the Main branch does except that
the second invocation of sshd crashes the machine with a hard hang
followed by a machine reset, rather than any panic or cache
error messages. The reboot, however, indicates the following in
startup messages:
savecore: reboot after panic: cache error @ EPC 0x%x ErrCtl 0x%x CacheErr 0x%x
May 17 19:40:48 mod84 savecore: reboot after panic: cache error @ EPC 0x%x ErrCtl 0x%x CacheErr 0x%x
2) If /bin/csh is the login shell, logging in results in either
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8036360c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3db3
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3dab
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x8034391c ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa00f3da
---- OR ----
Stopped at 0x8033fc98: jr ra
bdslot: nop
db> bt
8033fa84+214 (8ffff000,bf390000,5,d) ra 802999fc sz 0
8029986c+190 (8ffff000,d,5,33) ra 803692f8 sz 40
panic: cache error @ EPC 0x803448d8 ErrCtl 0x1 CacheErr 0xa0352363
Stopped at 0x8033fc98: jr ra
bdslot: nop
db> reboot
3) Executing /bin/csh manually from a shell prompt appears to have
no consequences if no command-line arguments are given. If
invoked as "csh -l" the above-mentioned cache panics occur. This
explains why it can't be used as a login shell as well.
I'm currently building a new /bin/sh and will put some debugging
output in the code to try to narrow down the functionality that
is causing the panic.
To avoid crashes, I've disabled ssh and changed root to use /bin/sh
as its login shell.
Other than the above-mentioned issues, the machine seems otherwise just
as stable as the INDY.
-scott