Hi David, David Brownlee wrote:
How easy is it to trigger the netbsd9 issues?
Not easily... the only way I found to reproduce is to keep the machine running and working for some time... usually one or two days compiling stuff and being connected through ssh.
As a datapoint, would it be worth trying to extract a netbsd-9 kernel (as /netbsd9) & modules onto the netbsd-8 and try a boot into the netbsd9 kernel (retaining everything else) to see if the issue exhibits?
so netbsd 9 kernel on 8 userland on the SS10 ? Could be worth a test, but as said I have no "safe and certain way" to reproduce the issue, which makes it hateful. My SS10 had issues when trying to boot kernel outside 1GB, I didn't make a separate parittion back then when I upgraded the HDD to the "mind bogging" 4GB :) That was back in NetBSD 2.0 times! It was also very fincky about accepting a second HDD. With various tests of "known good" HDDs I ended up breaking the cable. I found a replacedment, but then stopped "playing around" with this nice machine. I'll check how it is configured a the next boot.
Riccardo