Re: Problems with my Qube 2

Sevan / Venture37 <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:36:12 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/18/09 7:25 PM, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> My Qube 2 seems to crash every week or so with no explanation, the
>> system is currently sitting at the db prompt, the output of which
>> commands would be useful to give an indication of what makes the machine
>> fall over?
>>
>> trace output:
>> cpu_Debugger+4 (ff00,f9,c6,2000) ra 800f13b4 sz 0
>> comintr+4d0 (ff00,f9,c6,2000) ra 802c9734 sz 64
>
> It looks your Qube2 got break signal (which activates ddb(4))
> via its serial console. It could happen on some terminal
> which might pull its data line during reboot etc.
> In that case "continue" command may restart your Qube.
>
> You can avoid it by "sysctl -w ddb.fromconsole=0"
> (or put "ddb.fromconsole?=0" in /etc/sysctl.conf) etc.

hmm, that might have been me plugging in the serial lead, I've set 
"ddb.fromconsole?=0" in /etc/sysctl.conf as instructed & "ddb.onpanic?=1"
Will post back with another trace output if/when it hangs again?

Thanks for your help Izumi :)



Sevan