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Date:      Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:18:56 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Jens =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=F6der?= <j.roeder@tu-bs.de>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: alpha/50659: reboot causes SRM console to loop endless error and needs to be restetted hard
Message-ID:  <20030408181856.GA10163@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200304071730.h37HUAtR035117@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200304071730.h37HUAtR035117@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 10:30:10AM -0700, Jens Röder wrote:

>  I am sorry for not mentioning the version:
>  
>  The machine is an "alphastation 500" from digital and the srm version is
>  "V7.2-2".

OK, that is what I have on my AS500 as well.

>  It run perfectly under FreeBSD 4.7 but unfortunately the kernel was not
>  stable with having probably problems in memory so that I tried the 5.0.

Do you mean it reports Processor Correctable memory errors? How much memory
does it have?

>  This signifficantly runs more stalbe as long one does not use ipfw
>  command. "ipfw show" sometimes panics the kernel and on the reboot, as

Is ipfw compiled in or kldload-ed?

>  well as by any other reboot, the srm console gets into an desolate
>  condition. Using "halt" works fine as expected.

I am currently running a tight loop doing 'ipfw show' all the time on my
DS10. I need to get my AS500 up to 5.0 before I can try to reproduce you
problem there. That'll take considerable time, I have to install 4.8R
first. 

W/
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