SPARCclassic keeps crashing with 3.0 installed (tty problems?)
Hi,
Couple of days ago decided to change my SPARCclassic over from Solaris
2.6 to Debian 3.0. Install seemed to go fine but it has locked-up a
couple of times now when I was not on the system (come back to it and
it's frozen, doesn't respond to pings or anything). System ran fine
for over a year with sol2.6 so don't think it's a hardware problem.
Here's the info:
Headless SPARCclassic with IBM 4GB HD (is there anything special that
has to be done to run it headless?)
No SBus cards or anything.
sun1:/var/log# tail messages
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
readonly.
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: init[1]: Unimplemented SPARC system call
69
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: Adding Swap: 524872k swap-space (priority
-1)
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: cp[102]: Unimplemented SPARC system call
69
Feb 13 12:33:22 sun1 kernel: mv[119]: Unimplemented SPARC system call
69
Feb 13 12:33:23 sun1 kernel: inetd[147]: Unimplemented SPARC system
call 53
Feb 13 12:33:25 sun1 kernel: atd[157]: Unimplemented SPARC system call
69
Feb 13 12:33:26 sun1 kernel: cron[160]: Unimplemented SPARC system call
108
kern.log shows the same messages.
sun1:/var/log# tail syslog
Feb 13 12:41:49 sun1 last message repeated 5 times
Feb 13 12:41:57 sun1 init: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Feb 13 12:41:57 sun1 init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Feb 13 12:41:58 sun1 init: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Feb 13 12:41:59 sun1 init: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Feb 13 12:41:59 sun1 init: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Feb 13 12:41:59 sun1 init: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5
minutes
Feb 13 12:46:29 sun1 in.telnetd[408]: connect from 192.168.0.32
Feb 13 12:47:00 sun1 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-4
Feb 13 12:47:32 sun1 last message repeated 18 times
daemon.log shows the same messages.
I haven't seen any messages that seems to presage the lock-ups. I've
tried looking up these error messages (Google) but it seems a lot of
people have asked about them but I don't see any answers. I did find
the following:
Solution? You could try recompiling the kernel without serial support.
Otherwise, delete /lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/serial.o, and edit
/etc/conf.modules. There's a line something like:
alias char-major-4 serial
Change it to:
alias char-major-4 off
But a look in /etc/conf.modules says not to edit the file by hand, look
in /etc/modutils but I don't see anything like that in there. Do I
have to try to recompile the kernel even though this should be a pretty
standard install for Debian/sparc? Is there a troubleshooting FAQ for
Debian/sparc that I'm not finding?
I also looked for core files (since that helps with figuring out
crashes -- yes???) and found a couple but not sure what they can tell
me:
sun1:/var/log# find / -name core -print
/dev/core
/proc/sys/net/core
Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
DJ
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