Re: sparc buildd issues [Re: Release candidate architecture requalification results; amd64 is RC]

2005-12-27 Thread William Herrin
oblem is, it doesn't seem to affect 2.6.8.2 . Regards, Bill Herrin On 12/27/05, Alexander Zangerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:04:50 EST, William Herrin writes:>On a Sparc netra X1, the system partially freezes (some stuff continues>running but at least one

Re: sparc buildd issues [Re: Release candidate architecture requalification results; amd64 is RC]

2005-12-27 Thread William Herrin
On 12/27/05, Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: What is this kernel problem, how does it manifest? Which branch, 2.4 or 2.6? I don't know if this is the same problem you're looking for, but here are the symptoms I've seen for kernels 2.6.11 and 2.6.12: On a Sparc netra X1, the system partial

Free Sparcserver 670 in DC area

2005-10-31 Thread William Herrin
If anyone in the DC area is feeling adventuresome and would like to try getting Debian to work on a Sparcserver 670, drop me a line. I have one with quad 40mhz processors and about half a gig of ram. Its yours if you pick it up. The 600 series were the first of the Sun 4m machines, supporting sbus,

Re: Netra X1 strange lock up Debian 3.1, kernel 2.6.12.3

2005-09-05 Thread William Herrin
> > I'm getting a wierd partial-lockup under Debian 3.1 (sarge) on a > > Netra X1 > > with a 2.6.11.3 kernel compiled fresh from the sources. > > This happened with kernels from 2.6.9 to 2.6.11. It appears to have > been fixed in 2.6.12, no lockup in the last 20 days (before it was 6 > days

Re: Netra X1 strange lock up Debian 3.1, kernel 2.6.12.3

2005-09-05 Thread William Herrin
> The box is up for weeks on end you say? But you have no swap added. > Could it be linux's 2.6 MM refusing to spawn a new shell due to low mem? I disabled the swap after the second time it happened on the theory that it might be thrashing (the machine is remotely located so I can't just listen f

Netra X1 strange lock up Debian 3.1, kernel 2.6.12.3

2005-09-05 Thread William Herrin
I'm getting a wierd partial-lockup under Debian 3.1 (sarge) on a Netra X1 with a 2.6.11.3 kernel compiled fresh from the sources. The system will run fine for several weeks. Then it will refuse to run new shells. Running daemons will continue to run but an attempt to start a new shell will fail. I