Hello,
This may be a trivial / off-topic question; if so, I apologise.
I've just installed the Debian port on my RiscPC with the result that
everything works except a bizarre kernel panic when using (at least)
ftp and probably some other stuff too. Everything is OK using the
ARM image at ftp.jimpick.com until I install the default Debian packages,
and after that any attempt to use apt causes a kernel panic when
logging in to the Debian ftp site.
'kernel panic: Unknown data abort'
I also get them same behaviour when ftp'ing some other remote sites;
but others are OK. Under X everything just hangs with the cursor
flashing in the top-left of the screen; this behaviour occurs with
gftp, gicq and ftp in an xterm. (Oddly the same thing happens with
gcd.)
I've reinstalled everything four times now and I get the same behaviour
every time. Initially I assumed I'd accidentally installed some
netwinder material that was causing a problem, but this does not
appear to be the case. I've also tried compiling a fresh kernel
(2.2.13, patch rmk2) which built cleanly but crashed more or less when
trying to mount the root filesystem when I tried to use it. This
seems very odd; I must have done something wrong. I'm currently
using the most recent (010300) 2.2.13 lkab kernel from inkvine.fluff.org
to boot into Linux; the 2.2.14 kernel from the same source boots
but exhibits the same behaviour. All the 2.3 kernels I have tried
hang the machine as soon as it attempts to boot the kernel.
Additionally I've also tried the original 2.0.36 kernel from
arm.linux.uk.org but this hangs on trying to mount the root filesystem.
If I boot the kernel with the command line argument init=/bin/sh (or
some other shell) then everything seems OK; I've tried selectively omitting
init scripts from /etc/init.d but none of them seem to cure the
problem. But obviously something is getting loaded which is causing
the problem.
Does anybody have any idea what might be going on?
Many thanks,
David
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