Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:44:28PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able > > to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with > > a signal (I believe) 11, > > fair enough :) > > btw, from past experience, sig_fault 11 usually points to faulty hardware > (usually RAM...) - haven't found them much on BSD, but i'd get them all the > time when using lesser hardware on linux (building kernel was a standard way > to > test the hardware back then) but since you've ruled out hardware... i dont > know what else :) > I agree, that's one of the reasons it took me so long to decide to shut the production machine down to verify whether it _was_ hardware or not. I was extermely disapointed when I was able to reproduce the problem on known good hardware, as the unit i'm trying to put FreeBSD on is still under waranty. I don't really know how to go about creating a reproducable enough problem that is simple enough to submit a bug report, so I supose my only option is to find another use for this machine. too bad, beacuse I can easily buy yese machines, which isn't always the case in a corporate environment. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able
> to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with
> a signal (I believe) 11,
fair enough :)
btw, from past experience, sig_fault 11 usually points to faulty hardware
(usually RAM...) - haven't found them much on BSD, but i'd get them all the
time when using lesser hardware on linux (building kernel was a standard way to
test the hardware back then) but since you've ruled out hardware... i dont
know what else :)
good luck,
B
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Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:39:35PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:02:28 -0400 > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't get 6.1 to even compile a new kernel on 2 different Sun > > Ultra 40's Anyone have nay reason that it should not work on these machines? > > Stan, > as a general rule, telling the list what you did and the (exact) error / > problems you encountered will give better results... > > Sorry I can't be of help in this particular issue. > That would be a little hard to summarize, as it's taken a couple of months to come to the conclusion that FreeBSD is unusable on these machines. Partly because I only have 2 of them, one of which is in daily critical production running Linux. I had assumed that I might have hardware problems on the machine I'm trying to use for FreeBSD, despite having run _extensive_ hardware diagnostics. Yesterday, in desperation< I shut down the machine running Linux, and put the boot disk from the other machine in it. On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with a signal (I believe) 11, Basically I was flagging others who may be considering buying this hardware, with the intent of running FreeBSD on it to not do so. Without having machines to give to developers, I don't really expect this situation to get corrected in the foreseeable future. Having said that, at this point I have a machine that I really can't use for the application it was purchased for. I'd be willing to do any testing the developers might be interested in doing on this machine. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:02:28 -0400
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't get 6.1 to even compile a new kernel on 2 different Sun
> Ultra 40's Anyone have nay reason that it should not work on these machines?
Stan,
as a general rule, telling the list what you did and the (exact) error /
problems you encountered will give better results...
Sorry I can't be of help in this particular issue.
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