From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 04:01:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49AAD16A4DA for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:01:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.1.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B050243D62 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:01:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from mailspool3.panix.com (mailspool3.panix.com [166.84.1.78]) by mail2.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896BE9D843; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from teddy.fas.com (c-68-58-232-106.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [68.58.232.106]) by mailspool3.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D53B62E40; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1GIdjn-0001k4-00; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400 From: stan To: Norberto Meijome Message-ID: <20060831040107.GA6371@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Norberto Meijome , Free BSD Questions list References: <20060830220228.GB28263@teddy.fas.com> <20060831133935.4b649079@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060831133935.4b649079@localhost> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 23:52:58 up 136 days, 59 min, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.03 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:01:18 -0000 On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 01:39:35PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:02:28 -0400 > stan wrote: > > > I can't get 6.1 to even compile a new kernel on 2 different Sun > > Ultra 40's Anyone have nay reason that it should not work on these machines? > > Stan, > as a general rule, telling the list what you did and the (exact) error / > problems you encountered will give better results... > > Sorry I can't be of help in this particular issue. > That would be a little hard to summarize, as it's taken a couple of months to come to the conclusion that FreeBSD is unusable on these machines. Partly because I only have 2 of them, one of which is in daily critical production running Linux. I had assumed that I might have hardware problems on the machine I'm trying to use for FreeBSD, despite having run _extensive_ hardware diagnostics. Yesterday, in desperation< I shut down the machine running Linux, and put the boot disk from the other machine in it. On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with a signal (I believe) 11, Basically I was flagging others who may be considering buying this hardware, with the intent of running FreeBSD on it to not do so. Without having machines to give to developers, I don't really expect this situation to get corrected in the foreseeable future. Having said that, at this point I have a machine that I really can't use for the application it was purchased for. I'd be willing to do any testing the developers might be interested in doing on this machine. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie)