Re: sparc stability

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 02:30:12AM +0100, Warwick Brown wrote:
> heya peeps,
> 
> ive been trying to run linux on sparc for a while now, but no matter
> what distributuib/kernel i use, it seems to crash on an almost daily
> basis, im using a Sun Creator3D/30, and i cant seem to find any
> resolve, ive used splack, suse, debian, aurora, with no joy, and
> kernels from 2.4.19 to 2.4.21-pre6 with no joy, they all seem to
> suffer stack overflows, which in turn cause a core dump
> 
> any ideas? i know its a little vague
> 
> waz
> 
> p.s. what uptimes do fellow sparc'ers get?

You might want to hang out on debian-sparc.

I've got an Ultra 30 which is my desktop; I shut it off when I'm not
using it because it's damaging my hearing :-)  I also have an Ultra 60
which is supposed to be a server but is mostly sitting around doing
nothing:

 nnorman@aglarond:~$ uptime
  21:13:16 up 34 days, 23:23,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

I also have two Sparcstation 5s here but right now they are off.

I'm guessing you have an Ultra 30 with a Creator 3D framebuffer?
There's no such model as a "Sun Creator" :-)  it sounds to me like you
have a hardware problem.

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