After upgrading a 2100 from a 5/250 with DU 3.2d-1 to a 5/300,
I began to get panics during startup in multi-user mode.
It turns out that running S95xdm either at startup or (if removed
from rc3.d) later by hand (/sbin/init.d/xdm startup), the system crashes.
The problem persists after restoring the 5/250 CPU and the kernel that
I had been using. I even replaced the system disk with a spare
system disk that we have ready to go in the event of the main
system disk crashing. Problem remains. This suggests to me that there
is nothing on disk that is the only cause of this, but that something
in the firmware/environment variables is hosed. The firmware
for the system and PCI RAID controller are all up to latest levels
(v4.3-226, 219 for the raid). The environment variable contains
"graphics" for the monitor.
The instructions for upgrade included clearing NVRAM and later
running the eisa utility to rebuild it. That was done.
Could I have missed something there that induced this problem?
I believe the following are correct:
231 axis:/sbin/rc3.d # sizer -wu; sizer -wc
1
0
I'm hoping there is something easy and common in this upgrade
that I've missed, and that these sparse clues will be enough for
someone to identify the problem.
thanks,
mike
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Michael A. Crowley mcrowley_at_mtholyoke.edu
Director of Network and Technical Services 413-538-2140
Mount Holyoke College, Dwight Hall fax: 413-538-2331
50 College St, South Hadley, MA 01075
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Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix:
Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix: trap: invalid memory read access from kernel mode
Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix:
Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix: faulting virtual address: 0x0000000000000018
Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix: pc of faulting instruction: 0xfffffc00004b2770
Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix: ra contents at time of fault: 0xfffffc000054a1c0
Aug 3 15:25:59 axis vmunix: sp contents at time of fault: 0xffffffffa0ba31d0
Received on Sun Aug 04 1996 - 07:46:54 NZST