Buildworld on an Ultra1E - exception - what does it mean?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Oct 29 12:49:03 PDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 02:23:14PM +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 on an Ultra 1E (170). I have cvsup'ed
> source using the tag RELENG_5_3) yesterday. I started a buildworld, and
> it had been going for som time (some hours) before the machine suddenly
> was dead. So today I restarted the machine, thgis time with a serial
> console hooked up. I started the buildworld, and sure ebough, after some
> hours it hung again. I don't know exactly how far it has gotten, but the
> last thing it was compiling (before the hang) was 'fstream-inst.So'.
> 
> On the serial console, I got this message:
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> root at ultra1#
> RED State Exception
> 
> TL=0000.0000.0000.0005 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>    TPC=0000.0000.c003.c200 TnPC=0000.0000.c003.c204
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5800.1500 TL=0000.0000.0000.0004 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>    TPC=0000.0000.c003.c200 TnPC=0000.0000.c003.c204
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5800.1500 TL=0000.0000.0000.0003 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>    TPC=0000.0000.c003.c200 TnPC=0000.0000.c003.c204
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5800.1500 TL=0000.0000.0000.0002 TT=0000.0000.0000.0010
>    TPC=0000.0000.c004.0f78 TnPC=0000.0000.c004.0f7c
> TSTATE=0000.0044.5800.1400 TL=0000.0000.0000.0001 TT=0000.0000.0000.0063
>    TPC=0000.0000.001b.28e0 TnPC=0000.0000.001b.28e4
> TSTATE=0000.0000.0000.1202
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> I don't know much about Sun hardware. Can anyone tell me what this
> means, and what I can do about it?

Hardware failure, apparently.  From a reply when it happened to me
on a particular machine (now decomissioned):

----
99.99% of the time when you see a RED State exception
it is either the CPU itself or its ECache.  Since, if
I've read the rest of the thread correctly, you're
only seeing it under load it sounds like it's likely
the ECache, not the processor itself.
----

kris
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