On 11/15/17, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Mike Coddington <m...@coddington.us> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> > I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to >> > be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it throws >> > some abort trap errors and crashes. If I reboot, I get a bunch of >> > abort traps during the boot process followed by several: >> > >> > init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for pot /dev/ttyC3: ... >> > >> > What do you guys think this is...? Hard drive failure...? >> >> Out of curiosity, does the same thing happen if you extract the tar with >> the pax(1) program? That'll at least let you know if it's tar causing >> the problem or not. >> > > tar _is_ pax: > : corwin; ls -li /bin/tar /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/tar > : corwin; > > Fundamentally, unless a userspace process is poking at devices or similar, > it should be unable to panic the kernel. An abort trap in the kernel is > either a kernel bug or a hardware bug. IIRC there's some pmap bug on > macppc that no one has managed to track down which causes crashes on some > machines, but not others. I've never hit it on the Macbook I use for > builds, but the ports build boxes, whatever model they are, seem to hit it > periodically...
I read it as the tar process is the one aborting. which, if true, sounds like user-land and kernel are out-of-sync. Unfortunately, specific info is missing from the problem report. --patrick
