Subject: Re: Random segfaults
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/28/2005 00:57:41
On 2005.06.28 10:22:22 +0000, Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 10:17:03PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
> >
> > I'm getting some random segfaults/bus errors/memory faults on my dual
> > SPARCstation-20. I did a full check at the Open Boot PROM and it reported
> > everything functional, so I'm guess this isn't hardware fault.
>
> Maybe, maybe not. The prom tests are, at best, cursory. You could
> still have a memory fault (or worse, a main board fault).
:((
>
> > Also,
> > I didn't had any problems with 2.0/2.0.2/2.0_STABLE.
> >
>
> Maybe the problem developed after you upgraded (I had the same thing
> happen with solaris on an e250... seemd to run sol 8 fine but put sol
> 9 on it and it would blow up with random seg faults... turned out to
> be the main board was faulty)
I'll downgrade to 2.0_STABLE to see if the problem exists.
Thanks,
-- Rui Paulo