Subject: 19990101 kernel panics
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: None <jsturges@gmri.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/22/1999 09:26:05
Hello,
I just got my uVax-II up and running the December snapshot, with the 1/1/99
kernel. Let me say that, in the little bit of playing with it I've done so
far, it's nice! The last release I was running on this machine was 1.1A,
and you can certainly see some nice speed-ups and enhancements. I'm
especially thrilled to have shared libraries... I think that's fantastic.
:-) Kudos to the entire development team.
However, I have an outstanding issue. :-)
During compiles, I seem to get frequent panics. "Frequent" may be harsh,
as I've only tried to build about 2 things. But here's what I get
everytime. So far, all I've really tried to do is build Perl and gdbm:
panic: trap: access fault without process
Stopped at _arithflt+0x18b: bbc $6, 60(r8), _arithflt+0x1ed
Now, I don't know fully how to interpret this, but the "arithflt" would
seem to indicate some relationship to floating point math, somehow. That's
all I can glean. :-)
Anyone know what this means? And has anyone seen this? I've been lurking
on the list and don't recall anyone mentioning this so far.
thanks,
Jonathan