Subject: Re: MOL crashing alot (G4, 2.2.19 kernel)
From: Adam Fedor (fedor@doc.com)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 09:56:22 MDT
Just a followup. Upgrading my kernel to 2.4.4 makes MOL a lot more
stable for the most part. Since no one else reported this I'm guessing
maybe there was something wrong with my molrc, but I'm not sure what -
maybe setting the ram_size to 128 was too large?
Adam Fedor wrote:
> When I used 0.9.53, MOL was rock solid, but since I've upgraded to
> 0.9.58 and now 0.9.60, MOL has been crashing a lot. At one point 0.9.58
> trashed my Mac System disk and did something unusual to my Lunix root
> partition (fixed by fsck), although the evidence for that is
> circumstantial.
>
> To get to the point, now I am running:
>
> YellowDog-2.0, 2.2.19-1k kernel (stock installation)
> MacOS 9 (brand new install, no extra extensions, ...)
> MOL 0.9.60-4 rpm, with mol-kmods built from src for the 2.2.19-1k kernel
>
> I've read all the recent email on the subject and haven't found anything
> that really matches my situation. To wit: I have 17 partitions but I use
> the /dev/hda10 syntax, I use --boot in my molrc, nothing unusually
> running on my Mac, Altivec disabled, etc.
>
> Here's the end of one log file from a crash (crashed when I started an
> xterm):
>
> ***** SIGNAL Illegal instruction in thread main-thread *****
> si_signo = 4, si_errno 0, si_code 00000000
> si_addr (nil). Last RVEC: 0x0 (0)
> NIP 1000e61c
> cleaning up...
>
> I could send the entire log and perhaps a dozen more if anyone wants.
>
>
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