Re: Request for help - my computer 'bought the farm'
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 04:50:58PM -0400, Roland McGrath was heard to say:
> > I have 48 megabytes..I finally sat down and worked out how to get swap turned
> > on (it wasn't a problem with Hurd not recognizing my swap partition, but
> > rather a problem with me not editing the boot scripts :-P )
>
> Note that you can alse use the `swapon' command at run time without rebooting.
*blink*
I actually tried this a few times but the swapon command didn't do anything
obvious. Eg.. 'swapon /dev/hd0s6' just sat there until I interrupted it with
control-C. Adding hd0s6 as the default pager works.
> > This error still happens to me after a while. In fact, after enabling swap
> > I did a dpkg-buildpackage on Guile to see what happened. It didn't even
> > get as far as it had previously before spontaneously rebooting. I tried
> > finishing the build by hand, and in debian/rules binary got messages
> > along the lines of: "wait: Computer bought the farm Mach: essential
> > server proc died. Crashing computer. ...."
>
> Hmm, that sounds like you might be hitting the same filesystem bug that
> Marcus has seen when building X. Or, it might be another bug if proc is
> really what's crashing (first). It's important for us to see all the
> console messages to tell what's really going on. If the boot filesystem
> server crashes (which is what Marcus was seeing), then all other manner of
> mayhem may ensue and falsely suggest other culprits. If it is really a
> proc server bug crashing just the proc server, that is probably less
> difficult to find than the filesystem bug.
>
> You can try this patch to init to make it sit'n'spin instead of rebooting
> Mach for a crash, so you can see all the console messages and write every
> one down before hitting the reset button. (If you are not in a position to
> easily recompile your hurd, I can send you an init binary with this patch.)
>
> Index: init.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/hurddev/cvsroot/hurd/init/init.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.103
> diff -u -b -p -r1.103 init.c
> --- init.c 1999/03/06 22:17:41 1.103
> +++ init.c 1999/05/25 05:33:01
> @@ -331,6 +331,8 @@ reboot_system (int flags)
> void
> crash_system (void)
> {
> + printf("spinning...\n");
> + while (1);
> reboot_system (CRASH_FLAGS);
> }
I can give this a shot; I'm sure I'll have to recompile the Hurd sooner or
later anyway :-)
Thanks for the help, btw.
Daniel
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