Re: NetBSD 6 on Cobalt still broken

Andy Ruhl <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:49:48 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
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On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:31 PM, John Klos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems that NetBSD 6 on Cobalt is still broken. I don't have a serial
> console, but after upgrading I was getting tons of core dumps if I tried to
> use the system for more than a handful of minutes at a time. I was finally
> able to untargzip each of the sets after a number of restarts, but it's
> still problematic. This may still be the problem experienced in PR 46890.
>
> I'm about to try current to see if the problem is there, too.
>
> (netbsd-6, sources from today, Cobalt Raq 2 with 256 megs which has been
> stable with netbsd-5 compiling for hundreds of days)
>
> Is anyone running netbsd-6 on a Cobalt Raq or Cube? Or on any MIPS?

I tried 6 a while back but it was crashing. I assumed the hardware was
bad since it hadn't run for a while. I might have some time to try it
again in the next few days. I have a Cube2.

Andy