Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 12:54:27 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ECC errors causing panic on Sun Fire V210 Message-ID: <20100704105427.GA82962@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimJoiVv-3Xh7nYHgrU-0TjgmzQlZCHTo9B2soi-@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimJoiVv-3Xh7nYHgrU-0TjgmzQlZCHTo9B2soi-@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 12:12:29PM -0400, John Floren wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I recently installed FreeBSD on my newly-acquired Sun Fire V210. In > the three days I've had it up, it has spontaneously rebooted 4 times. > The first 3 times I didn't catch any error messages on the serial > console (I had disconnected my laptop), but this morning it did it > again after I left my laptop hooked up. Here's what I saw: > > panic: trap: corrected ecc error > cpuid = 0 > [forgot to write this part, it was something like not being able to > find the dump device] > [starts rebooting in OBP] > > It seems to me that the kernel should not be panicking when an ecc > error is *corrected*. Have any of you come across this before? I > attempted to search the archives but got an internal server error. > CURRENT as well as 7-STABLE and 8-STABLE (8.1-RELEASE will be the first release to include this) actually no longer should panic in case of ECC errors. The problem was to find a machine exhibiting ECC errors frequently enough to ensure the kernel does the right thing in order to recover gracefully from them. Nevertheless they are a sign of hardware problems. Marius
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