alpha/50659: reboot causes SRM console to loop endless error and needs to be restetted hard

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Tue Apr 8 11:18:59 PDT 2003


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. 

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