Hi, Couple of days ago decided to change my SPARCclassic over from Solaris 2.6 to Debian 3.0. Install seemed to go fine but it has locked-up a couple of times now when I was not on the system (come back to it and it's frozen, doesn't respond to pings or anything). System ran fine for over a year with sol2.6 so don't think it's a hardware problem.
Here's the info: Headless SPARCclassic with IBM 4GB HD (is there anything special that has to be done to run it headless?) No SBus cards or anything. sun1:/var/log# tail messages Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: Adding Swap: 524872k swap-space (priority -1) Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: cp[102]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: mv[119]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 Feb 13 12:33:23 sun1 kernel: inetd[147]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 53 Feb 13 12:33:25 sun1 kernel: atd[157]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 69 Feb 13 12:33:26 sun1 kernel: cron[160]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 108 kern.log shows the same messages. sun1:/var/log# tail syslog Feb 13 12:41:49 sun1 last message repeated 5 times Feb 13 12:41:57 sun1 init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 13 12:41:57 sun1 init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 13 12:41:58 sun1 init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 13 12:41:59 sun1 init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 13 12:41:59 sun1 init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 13 12:41:59 sun1 init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Feb 13 12:46:29 sun1 in.telnetd[408]: connect from 192.168.0.32 Feb 13 12:47:00 sun1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 Feb 13 12:47:32 sun1 last message repeated 18 times daemon.log shows the same messages. I haven't seen any messages that seems to presage the lock-ups. I've tried looking up these error messages (Google) but it seems a lot of people have asked about them but I don't see any answers. I did find the following: Solution? You could try recompiling the kernel without serial support. Otherwise, delete /lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/serial.o, and edit /etc/conf.modules. There's a line something like: alias char-major-4 serial Change it to: alias char-major-4 off But a look in /etc/conf.modules says not to edit the file by hand, look in /etc/modutils but I don't see anything like that in there. Do I have to try to recompile the kernel even though this should be a pretty standard install for Debian/sparc? Is there a troubleshooting FAQ for Debian/sparc that I'm not finding? I also looked for core files (since that helps with figuring out crashes -- yes???) and found a couple but not sure what they can tell me: sun1:/var/log# find / -name core -print /dev/core /proc/sys/net/core Any help appreciated. Thanks, DJ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com
