Re: official 2.4 debs for sun4cdm (was: Re: kernel 2.4.x on sun4c)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:35:36AM +0200, christian mock wrote: > Did the stability of SMP sun4m boxen improve for anyone going from > 2.4.18 to 2.4.19? Shall I invest the multiple CPU hours to recompile > for SMP? Well, I tried 2.4.20-pre11 from osinvestor.com, and here it sits, going spin_lock() CPU#X stuck at ... for both CPUs, over and over -- same problem as with earlier 2.4SMP kernels. ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ ** VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. Ich kenne auch ein Klo, wo "Austria Email" draufsteht. Das ist wahrscheinlich eine Art Rohrpost. -- Robert Bihlmeyer in at.sonstiges
Re: official 2.4 debs for sun4cdm (was: Re: kernel 2.4.x on sun4c)
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:35:21AM +0200, Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr wrote: > actually, 2.4.19 was behaving quite well on my SS20 (even in SMP mode) > and LX. i'm running the dual-SS20 as my two-headed desktop, and it works IBTD; I've compiled 2.4.19 as non-SMP to finally get my 2 CPU SS10 stable; it's running since 29 days now on one CPU, with 2.4.18SMP it was getting stuck about every other day. Did the stability of SMP sun4m boxen improve for anyone going from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19? Shall I invest the multiple CPU hours to recompile for SMP? ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Vielleicht ist es aber auch nur einfach Zeit, dem Wolfi wieder den root-Account wegzunehmen. Er ist noch zu klein dafuer. Ferdinand Goldmann in at.gesellschaft.politik
Re: SS1+: real bad stability after woody-upgrade
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:11:16PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: > >i'll be grateful for all hints that might lead to solving this. > > Yes, definitely. Well, another data point: my SS10 (2x 40 MHz supersparc) behaves badly since about when woody became "stable" too -- it was actually running woody before, but very solidly. In my case, it's the postfix "master" process which goes crazy -- the last time it was hung in state "D", now it is in "R", both times unkillable. The console shows: Unsupported unaligned load/store trap for kernel at . Kernel panic: Wheee. Kernel does fpu/atomic unaligned load/store. Press L1-A to return to the boot prom f0029018 would be in srmmu_set_pte_nocache_viking according to System.map The kernel I'm running is kernel-image-2.2.19-sun4dm-smp, version 8, the very same kernel I'm running since months. My other sparc32, an IPC, is running well even with woody -- but "running" in that case means a very minimal install of woody (not even an MTA, just ssmtp) just idling along. That one has an uptime of 146 days and is running kernel-image-2.2.20-sun4cdm version 9. ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Wahrscheinlich ist die Klage billiger als eine Inseratenkampagne: "Wir haben das Internet nicht verstanden." -- Martin Hlustik ueber Ferrero in Sachen kinder.at
Re: help with sparc boot-floppies bugs?
> > [sparc] inittab not modified for serial console > > ( http://bugs.debian.org/122142 ) > > The tty1 messages are the base-config thingie, trying to start on tty1. > This is bad and isn't sparc specific (just serial console specific). this may be the same thing as #126370, and should be solved in the boot-floppies CVS -- dbootstrap dereferences a NULL pointer when on a serial console and no "console=ttySx" kernel argument given. ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ ** VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. Those silly RFCs are all that separate us from the animals! -- Kevin Rodgers in a.r.e pgpGopQSEd1yT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Enabling serial console on an IPX
> I've gotten a base system installed now through the net boot and when > I boot from a serial console, it gets through the bootup sequence and > then hangs at the following: > > INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes in the /etc/inittab left over after the install (at least for woody) there are lines for ttyS1; comment out the "tty1" lines and uncomment the "ttyS1", and do so for inittab.real (IIRC) too, and you should be set. ciao, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ ** VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. Magie kapot. Jij nu weg. En blijf weg. -- Bram pgpPYV0ZQAAIh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: IPX net boot freezes at Booting Linux...
> Holler if that doesn't work and I can try to recreate it again on my > system. If anyone knows how to get this to work (rather than workaround > it like I've done) I'd like to hear how. It's a long time since I net-booted my IPX, but ISTR the problem was that while RARP and the initial part of the kernel TFTP download worked fine, at some time the ARP entry at the TFTP server timed out, and the IPX didn't respond to the ARP requests -- manually setting an ARP entry at the TFTP server helped... HTH, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Metallica wasn't affected much, unsurprisingly. You can play lots of Metallica MP3s at the same time and it still sounds like Metallica, only more so. -- Dave Brown pgpHMyQCQtjN4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.4.7 and sparc32... ;(((
> Are you running with some highmem? (it should tell you in the boot log) > If so I can see a few places that could cause this bug. It appears that > we are scheduling with the page_table lock held. hmm... the 2.4.7 boot messages say: Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: 20306MB HIGHMEM available. Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 32080 Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(0): 36864 pages. Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(1): 0 pages. Jul 22 22:33:31 twin kernel: zone(2): 81747 pages. the box has 128 megs. HTH, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ ** VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. Magie kapot. Jij nu weg. En blijf weg. -- Bram pgprzo3yIXUKE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: 2.4.7 and sparc32... ;(((
> second answer: 2.4.7 compiles, but is not really stable yet, but Anton > is working on it. (who's anton? is he reading this list?) yup; hung after a night on my SMP SS10, something about spinlocks (uh, forgot to write down the actual message), what I have written down and looked up in System.map is: CPU0 stuck at f0047e4c swap_out_mm CPU1 stuck at f003dedc exit_mmap owner 0:f003c568 handle_mm_fault HTH, and I'll happily test patches on this box, it's experimental anyways. cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ What other OS provides not one but two INTERCAL compilers as part of the standard distribution? Mark Brown about Debian pgpAb5VRrnM0k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Network install on SparcStation 1+
> I see a bunch of tftp data packets and acknowledgements going between the
> machines. The last data packet is smaller than the rest, so I assume it's
> finished the file. After that, there's no network activity whatsoever.
> Having reviewed the install documentation I'm a bit confused - I know I need
> tftp, but do I need both rarp and bootp - the documentation ("Installing
> Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For SPARC",
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/ch-rescue-boot.en.html#s-install
> -tftp )says I need both in 6.5 line 1, but 6.5 line 2 implies one or the
> other.
You only need RARP to get the Sun load it's tftp image file; bootp is
probably needed to boot a diskless workstation...
ciao,
cm.
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** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/
What other OS provides not one but two INTERCAL compilers as part of
the standard distribution?
Mark Brown about Debian
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Re: Network install on SparcStation 1+
> video signal entirely, if I use a serial terminal the counter stays at > 1e4600 (not quite the right file size) and there's no discernable network > traffic to/from the machine. Any ideas? I've seen instances where the tftp server was ARPing for the booting machine after transferring some of the image, and didn't get an answer; putting in a static ARP entry helped... run tcpdump when you netboot the box and look at what's happening. HTH, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Vielleicht ist es aber auch nur einfach Zeit, dem Wolfi wieder den root-Account wegzunehmen. Er ist noch zu klein dafuer. Ferdinand Goldmann in at.gesellschaft.politik pgpB69CzIR5NC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Keyboard/mouse problems with X
> Wow I built 2.2.15 from sources and since then xdm/mouse/keyboard > crashes.. > I can restart xdm from an ssh connection and all seems fine. well, just to add another datapoint: I'm not running a display manager, but "X -query ...". ciao, cm. -- christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs End pgpVJiHOhaugd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Keyboard/mouse problems with X
> The problem is that /dev/sunmouse is a "single open" device, so that means > that only one process is allowed to open the device. If you install gpm, > it will open /dev/sunmouse, so the X server can't use the device. Gpm has > a solution for this: the /dev/gpmdata repeater. Unfortunately, the Xsun no, I don't think that this is the cause -- there's no gpm installed on my machine, and with 2.2.13 and 2.2.15 I'm seeing complete mouse and keyboard lockup in X (sometimes, I can type some characters into the xdm window, but then it stops). 2.2.9 does work, however. ciao, cm. -- christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ VIBE!AT http://www.vibe.at/ ** wir sind nicht zum spass hier. begin LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs End pgpKvkUPOpDC1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: SUN MONITOR MANUAL WANTED!!
--- Begin Message --- > I know that the X server for MATROX card will accept a > sync_on_green option in the MONITOR section of XFREE86config, > and I have seen "composite" is a valid flag at the end > of a modeline, but are composite and sync_on_green > mutually exclusive? dunno. What I do know is that sync_on_green works with the G200 (XF86 3.3.2 on a PC) and an SGI 20D11 which needs sync on green... Can't help you with the sun monitor because mine is attached where it belongs, on an IPC (and the picture quality is just great). cm. -- christian mock @ home in vienna, austria vorerhebungen eingestellt! -> http://www.tahina.priv.at/bincancel/ 0. Verein für Internet-BEnutzer Österreichs (.AT): http://www.vibe.at/ kein urlaub in kaernten! --- End Message --- pgpRHWfFMrmvd.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The road ahead ...
--- Begin Message --- > * testing > > I would appreciate a flood of experiences with the uptodate sparc slink well, emacs20 installation breaks if gcc isn't installed (and it wasn't, on this 200 MB IPC installation), I can't even uninstall it after I uninstalled gcc again. so it probably should depend on gcc. ciao, cm. -- christian mock @ home in vienna, austria sind fremdcancels strafbar? -> http://www.tahina.priv.at/bincancel/ Those silly RFCs are all that separate us from the animals! -- Kevin Rodgers in a.r.e --- End Message --- pgpfVKThsOuF6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: missing packages in slink (continued)
--- Begin Message --- > Is there a xf86setup package for sparc? Since sparc xservers are not using > XF86Config at all, I don't think such package have to be provided but I could > be wrong... just a comment from an end-user: when I set up my sun, I had to create /dev/kbd manually, /dev/fb* by running MAKEDEV and /dev/mouse by symlinking -- is this resolved? ciao, cm. -- christian mock @ home in vienna, austria sind fremdcancels strafbar? -> http://www.tahina.priv.at/bincancel/ Those silly RFCs are all that separate us from the animals! -- Kevin Rodgers in a.r.e --- End Message --- pgp4UIlljyCMo.pgp Description: PGP signature
