Re: unstable C110

On Wednesday, December 20, 2006 at 15:52:35 +0100, mickey wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Maurice Janssen wrote:
>> When I hookup a ordinary narrow SCSI drive and netboot the machine, the
>> kernel usually loads fine.  Sometimes it hangs at this point (the
>> Install/Upgrade/Shell line never appears), sometimes it panics while
>> formatting, sometimes it panics while installing the filesets, sometimes
>> when setting up the network, but it never completes a full install.
>
>have you tried snapshot or 3.9 by any chance?

I just gave 3.9 a try: the machine locked up after entering 'i<enter>'
at the "(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell?" line.

The latest snapshot got a lot further, put paniced at this point:

IPv4 address for ie0? (or 'none' or 'dhcp') dhcp
Issuing hostname-associated DHCP request for ie0.
DHCPDISCOVER on ie0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
Stopped at      0xfc:   break   0,0
ddb> trace
(null)(0,0,0,0) at 0xfc
(null)(0,0,0,e6a7f100) at 0xfc
(null)(c0,0,0,0) at 0x27b348
-- syscall #252(7803c348, 1, ffffffff, 93, ...)
0x82168:
ddb> ps
   PID   PPID   PGRP    UID  S       FLAGS  WAIT       COMMAND
*22214  13548   3381      0  7        0x82             dhclient
 13548   3381   3381     77  2      0x4102             dhclient
  3381   8232   3381      0  3      0x4082  pause      ksh
  8232      1   8232      0  3      0x4082  pause      sh
     9      0      0      0  3    0x100200  aiodoned   aiodoned
     8      0      0      0  2    0x100200             update
     7      0      0      0  3    0x100200  cleaner    cleaner
     6      0      0      0  3    0x100200  reaper     reaper
     5      0      0      0  3    0x100200  pgdaemon   pagedaemon
     4      0      0      0  2    0x100200             hil0
     3      0      0      0  2    0x100600             scsi
     2      0      0      0  2    0x100600             power0
     1      0      1      0  3      0x4080  wait       init
     0     -1      0      0  2     0x80200             swapper
ddb> 


>i used to run it all the time and it was working fine.

Hmm, that could mean that this one has some hardware problem.

>will retry it someday.
>
>> unknown Interphase device INP0500 at eisa0 slot 2 not configured
>
>what is the interphase card in it btw?

It's an EISA card with 10/100 Mbit NIC.

I think I'll try to install Debian Linux on it, just to see if it works
or not.

Maurice