From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jun 26 21:48:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B6414DE2 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:48:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77EBD75; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:48:01 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AARGH!! "dead" Alpha 164SX (Was: Re: OK, any pointers on how to use SRM? :-)) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Jun 1999 16:23:39 MST." <199906262323.QAA00454@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:48:01 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990627044801.77EBD75@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The next good question is.. what's up with softupdates? :-] Hmm.. say, > > No idea. We were unhappy with it at Usenix too. Perhaps I should send > Kirk an Aplha? Heh. :-) Todays excitement, on a kernel built after Kirk's changes: panic: lockmgr: locking against myself panic Stopped at Debugger+0x2c: ldq ra,0(sp) <0xfffffe0005adda60> db> trace Debugger() at Debugger+0x2c panic() at panic+0xf4 lockmgr() at lockmgr+0x340 cluster_wbuild() at cluster_wbuild+0x37c cluster_write() at cluster_write+0x1f0 ffs_write() at ffs_write+0x474 vn_write() at vn_write+0x130 dofilewrite() at dofilewrite+0xc0 write() at write+0x54 syscall() at syscall+0x224 XentSys() at XentSys+0x50 (null)() at 0x1600c096c db> This has been happening pretty reliably after attempting to change a root password. > > that NCR controller you gave me, is that the one that was screwing up on > > freefall by any chance? > > Not as such, no. I take it that means: "Same type, not the same physical card", yes? Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message