From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 14:03:30 +0100 Subject: Re: Occasional crash reports From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Takashi Oe Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: <20010814130302.0261BDB9FB@atlas.valhalla.net> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Tue, Aug 14, 2001, Takashi Oe wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote: > >> > I don't really know, but I can confirm that both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels >> > are unstable on a beige g3 and a bmac equipped b/w g3. I can crash them >> > rather easily with regular programs, given a day or two. >> >> Can you point at which program reliably crashes beige/G3? > > It's usually rsync. hmm. don't use that as much - but it's consistent with network activity - does it show up as an illegal instruction? >> that's what I use as my dev/build machine and it seems to be stable (2.4.x) >> except under the following circumstance: >> >> If I boot using the BootX application - at which point something drops a >> bomb which almost always ends up in the network stack and shows up as an >> illegal instruction (usually an FP one). > > Ah, yes, we use BootX app here, too. Version 1.2.2, I think. try a hard reboot and use the BootX init - that seems to cure the problem for me. Finding out what the problem actually is might be more tricky ;-) I'm on 1.2.2 as well - so that's the same. ciao, Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/