From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 11 1:48:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from postino.fi.infn.it (postino.fi.infn.it [192.84.145.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7A537B422 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it) Received: from nikita.fi.infn.it (nikita.fi.infn.it [192.84.146.189]) by postino.fi.infn.it (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3B8p4R74721; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:51:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:48:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Riccardo Veraldi X-Sender: To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Subject: Re: tar makes the kernel crash In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I actually cleaned it really a lot because it was full of dust. How do I make a reseat of the memory ?? I did not found any useful SRM utility instead on the VAXstation there is a cool PROM utility to test memory (test mem). I have a good experience of NetBSD/VAX but I do not have experience of FreeBSD/alpha, I have just been looking around for a good OS for my AlphaStation and excluding Linux at priori I have tryed NetBSD/alpha first and then I Switched to FreeBSD/alpha. I have not even tryed OpenBSD/alpha they don't even support ELF and LKM and shared libraries. Anyway my big problem for now is really the Xfree86 I am unable to make it work. And everytime I try to launch X it makes the kernel crash, the system complitely hangs and I have to manual power cycle it. I was thinking to mount the AlphaStation PCI card on a PC, configure it there and compy back on my AlphaStation the XF86Config file. My big problem is that XF86Setup does not work because it requres XF86_VGA16 which is not included in the XF86336 distribution on the CDROM!! I even tried to rebuild the Xfree86 compiling from the source tree but I do not know why XF86_VGA16 is not built! thanks Rick On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 07:19:44 GMT > From: Wilko Bulte > To: Riccardo Veraldi , > Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: tar makes the kernel crash > > > > You mean it could be RAM or Disk or whatever ? > > Yes, bad RAM, CPU, overheating or something like that can cause a > machine check. > > ECC on the memory can do a lot to avoid crashes, but sometimes you get > a machinecheck anyway. > > How about cleaning the machine (dust is bad for cooling) & reseating > the memory? I cannot tell from here, but it has fixed problems for me > in the past. > > Wilko > > > I Actually changed the RZ26 original Quantum disk with a > > IBM DNES 18Gb, but everything seems to work fine with the disk which is > > really also very fast. > > > > thanks > > > > Rick > > > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:19:22 -0400 (EDT) > > > From: Andrew Gallatin > > > To: Riccardo Veraldi > > > Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Re: tar makes the kernel crash > > > > > > > > > Riccardo Veraldi writes: > > > > > > > > I was doung a tar -xvf ports.tgz > > > > > > > > after a while the kernel crashes wit this message: > > > > /kernel: unexpected machine check: > > > > /kernel: panic: machine check > > > > > > > > then it dumps a few registers and the pid and name of the program > > > > comm=tar > > > > > > > > anyone have some idea what it could be due ?? > > > > thanks > > > > > > Typically, an unexpected machine check implies bad hardware. > > > > > > Drew > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > -- > | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org > http://www.nlfug.nl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message