Re: kernel for 2.2r4 and Xfree4 problem
Hi,
The machine is an Ultra 10/5. PCI-IDE drives.
Gabor
PS.
I haven't tried the kernel source 2.2.19 from the vger or kernel.org . Is
there any difference?
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> * Gabor Zoltan Csejtey <Gabor.Csejtey@idi.ntnu.no> [010525 06:36]:
> > I also installed the kernel-image-2.2.19-sun4u package and got NFS
> > kernel panic too:
> >
> > May 25 12:27:38 roma kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996
> > okir@monad.swb.de)
> > May 25 12:27:38 roma kernel: Unsupported unaligned load/store trap for
> > kernel at <00000000004f91ec>.
> > May 25 12:27:38 roma kernel: Kernel panic: Wheee. Kernel does
> > fpu/atomic unaligned load/store.
> >
> > I got this message when /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server starts.
>
> It would be helpful to know which SPARC it is that you have. This is a
> memory alignment problem... this one is in the kernel.
>
> > The other problem: I cannot start X it's killed with signal 10 after
> > loading module sunffb.
> > I'm using Xfree 4.0.2 compiled into potato.
>
> This, too is a memory alignment issue (well, usually)... you get a Sig10
> (aka SIGBUS) when a userspace app isn't memory aligned. The SPARC
> architecture has very strict memory alignment restrictions.
>
> > I can use nfs and X with other kernels: 2.2.17, 2.4.x but 2.4.x halts
> > sometimes using audio. Even STOP-A stops working.
>
> Again, knowing which SPARC would be helpful, but it's odd that X doesn't
> have the same issues with 2.2.17 or 2.4.x that it does with 2.2.19... at
> least from my perspective at the moment.
>
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