> > > I did what you suggested. First, my Blade 2000 has > mostly a standard configuration. > > The only non-Sun part is a Logitech MX-1000 mouse. > It has 2*900MHz US-III Cu, > > 2GB RAM, 72GB disk, DVD, Type 6 keyboard, and an > XVR-500. > > Looks more like a Sun Blade 1000. It is a Blade 2000. It is well known that Blade 1000 and 2000 share the same mainboards and CPUs, just the cases differ.
> > > Running /usr/lib/hal/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes > 2>hald2.log > > gives a 34kb log file and hald-runner core dumps > (signal 11 - segmentation fault > > in strlen()). I cannot attach the log file because > attaching doesn't work for me. > > So, here is an extract of two suspicious entries > and the last lines of the log: > > hald-runner dumping is not a h/w probing issue. I > can't reproduce this behavior > on a similarly configured Sun Blade 1000 in our lab > with snv_50 and vermillion 51. > > Did you install earlier HAL packages on this machine? No, the installation was luupdated from snv_49 with no changes (both SXCR). So, no other HAL versions. > Did you run install-jds with --force --ignore > options? Yes. > Did you see package install failures? No. > > What makes it harder for me to diagnose is that > vermillion 51 contains an early > development version HAL packages, dated 9/12. HAL was > integrated in snv_51 on > 10/12 - I cannot be sure if you're seeing a new bug > or one that's been fixed > since then. > > I would recommend to wait until build 52, when (I > hope) HAL packages will be > removed from the vermillion tarball. Then you can > upgrade to snv_52 and install > vermillion 52 on top of it and get all the right > bits. It seems as if I have to wait, indeed. I wanted to let the developers know that there are some problems even with nearly plain Sun hardware. > > Same trick won't fly with 51, because if you first > upgrade to snv_51, then the > vermillion packages will overwrite the new HAL with > the old HAL. OTOH, if you > first install vermillion packages and then upgrade to > snv_51, it will overwrite > the new GNOME with the old GNOME. To work around > this, you would either need to > BFU over vermillion or reinstall HAL-related packages > after upgrading to snv_51 > and installing vermillion 51 - but I don't know if > you're into this particular > kind of s&m :) > Regards Andreas This message posted from opensolaris.org
