On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:33:40 +0100 "John P. Looney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, on first boot, base-config was run, and immediately caused a > (reproducable) kernel-panic. > > I'm not quite sure what to do - this is a bog-standard Ultra10, that was > happily running solaris until yesterday. It's crashing in install-keymap > somewhere.
I had this one the other week, too. Nobody else on #sparc seemed to have heard of it which I found surprising. I got round it (eventually) by booting into single user mode and installing with apt, and then persuading base-config that it had already run. I'm not certain it's related to the keyboard though - I could log in on the second VC and work away happily (aside from base-config having a lock on the config database.) However, killing any part of the base-config process tree locked the machine solid instantly. The only error message I was getting on boot was about the RTC - I'd not selected the rtc.o module to be loaded at boot and so it couldn't set the hardware clock. I thought that I did have a type5 keyboard - it's set up as type5 at the moment and it works perfectly. Did any Ultra10s come with type5 keyboards? The machine in question is one of our oldest U10s. Perhaps there's a deeper bug that base-config triggers? The box has been working flat out for about a week now on an intensive CFD problem and not shown the slightest instability at all. Regards, AJ MacLeod
