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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:30:48 +0100
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-9.1 freezes on sun ultra-30
Message-ID:  <20130220113048.GA16637@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <DBF4A3CF-9B61-4AC8-AF44-4890FD8D6A3D@gmail.com>
References:  <DBF4A3CF-9B61-4AC8-AF44-4890FD8D6A3D@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:36:36PM +0100, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD-8.3 on my sun ultra-30, the 9.1 boot-only install CD failed to boot, so did the 9.0 install CD. 8.3 worked fine and from that I upgraded to 9.1 from source. The system has been up and running for a day or two when I get the message:
> 
> pcib0: correctable DMA error AFAR 0x3aecc400 AFSR 0x40f400009f800000
> 
> 
> I't repeats a few times on the console and then the system freezes. The system was doing some work building stuff from the port-collections, so the load was quite heavy. Is this hardware related (failing hardware) or is something in the 9.1 kernel thats doesn't work well with my hardware?
> 

Most likely RAM issues; re-seating the modules might help.

Marius




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