alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 10:32, Kazuyoshi Furutaka wrote:
> Dear John, Mark and all others,
> 
> From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: alpha/67626: X crashes an alpha machine, resulting reboot
> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:56:55 -0400
> 
> > We'd really need a stacktrace to help.  It would also be useful to know
> > if more recent versions of the OS (such as 6.1) exhibit the same problems.
> > 
> > As far as getting serial console working, you don't need to create a
> > /boot.config file (that is i386-specific).  However, you need to get SRM
> > to use the serial console and then the loader and kernel will use it.  
It's
> > been a while since I set it up, but I would look at your SRM variables and
> > see if there's a CONSOLE variable you can set to SERIAL instead of VIDEO
> > (IIRC).  You can then try running 'init' from SRM to restart SRM which
> > should then show up on your serial console.  You might be able to find 
more
> > definitive instructions on using SRM with a serial console via a web 
search.
> 
> Well, could you tell me how I can collect more information from
> the current installation, in addition to the attached ?
> 
> Later I'll test more recent versions...

A 0x670 vector machine check indicates a hardware failure specific to the
CPU such as a cache failure.

-- 
John Baldwin