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John Klos | 2 Mar 2012 16:34

Filesystem panic

Hi,

Is anyone using FFSv2 with netbsd-5? Twice, on filesystems which were 
recently newfs'd, I got panics. This latest I had something connected to 
the serial console:

dmode 81a4 mode 81a4 dgen 3895c0d4 gen 3895c0d4
size 2 blocks 4
ino 1872796 ipref 1865984
panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc

dumping to dev 20,33 offset 82680
dump succeeded

   83 BOOT SYS

Also, what does that dumping message indicate? I thought that crash dumps 
didn't work on VAXen.

Thanks,
John Klos
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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo | 12 Mar 2012 17:19
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Something wrong with (t)mscp scanning lately?

Here's my 4000/700A with a TQK50 TMSCP controller, and a CMD CQD223 MSCP
SCSI controller with its TMSCP option disabled, running 5.1.1 from
January.  There's a single SCSI disk attached:

NetBSD 5.1.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jan  5 02:17:53 UTC 2012
	builds <at> b7.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-1-RELEASE/vax/201201040549Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5-1-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
VAX 4000/700A
total memory = 127 MB
avail memory = 121 MB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0KA692, NVAX (ucode rev 2)
ze0 at mainbus0
ze0: hardware address 08:00:2b:2b:67:a6
shac at mainbus0 not configured
uba0 at mainbus0: Q22
mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 4 model 14
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK70
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 17
mscpbus1 at uda0: version 6 model 13
mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
ra0 at mscpbus1 drive 0: RA90
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "mfpr" frequency 1000000 Hz quality 100
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
ra0: size 45322643 sectors
boot device: ra0
root on ra0a dumps on ra0b
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John Klos | 16 Mar 2012 23:56

archivers/xz

Hi,

Does anyone have the time to see why pkgsrc/archivers/xz dumps core on 
startup on netbsd-5 on VAX? It's causing other packages to fail because 
their distfiles are in xz format.

Another interesting oddity is that if using tcsh, xz can't be seen in the 
path even though other things in /usr/local (or pkg)/bin/ can be seen. 
unxz works, but xz doesn't. csh sees it just fine... Strange!

Thanks,
John Klos
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Johnny Billquist | 17 Mar 2012 01:29
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Re: archivers/xz

On 2012-03-16 15.56, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have the time to see why pkgsrc/archivers/xz dumps core on
> startup on netbsd-5 on VAX? It's causing other packages to fail because
> their distfiles are in xz format.

Not right now. :-(

> Another interesting oddity is that if using tcsh, xz can't be seen in
> the path even though other things in /usr/local (or pkg)/bin/ can be
> seen. unxz works, but xz doesn't. csh sees it just fine... Strange!

Did you do a "rehash" after installing it?

	Johnny
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Gregg Levine | 17 Mar 2012 20:38
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Using SIMH vax and NetBSD-5.1.2

Hello!
With this new faster system I decided that I could go ahead and try
again with running NetBSD via SIMH-vax and indeed I managed to launch
the CD in the install mode.

However there is one specific stumbling block. In this case its the CD
itself, despite having been booted that way the installer claims that
the mount string:
"
   Status: Command failed
    Command: /sbin/mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
     Hit enter to continue
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /mnt2: Device not configured
"
is not working. That is the command is shown there. Otherwise the
instructions that Lars Brinkhoff created work well enough with this
release (of SimH). Otherwise I also find that I would need to tell the
installer what the networking method is for the Ethernet widget is so
that I could also fetch the sets from the NetBSD site and its mirrors
to make a network based install also work.

Suggestions please gentlemen.

-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 <at> gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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Anders Magnusson | 17 Mar 2012 21:50
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Re: Using SIMH vax and NetBSD-5.1.2

On 03/17/2012 08:38 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> With this new faster system I decided that I could go ahead and try
> again with running NetBSD via SIMH-vax and indeed I managed to launch
> the CD in the install mode.
>
> However there is one specific stumbling block. In this case its the CD
> itself, despite having been booted that way the installer claims that
> the mount string:
> "
>     Status: Command failed
>      Command: /sbin/mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
>       Hit enter to continue
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /mnt2: Device not configured
> "
> is not working. That is the command is shown there. Otherwise the
> instructions that Lars Brinkhoff created work well enough with this
> release (of SimH). Otherwise I also find that I would need to tell the
> installer what the networking method is for the Ethernet widget is so
> that I could also fetch the sets from the NetBSD site and its mirrors
> to make a network based install also work.
>
> Suggestions please gentlemen.
>
I assume that you use ka650 as CPU?  Then the CD reader is a MSCP device,
and you should look at the boot messages about which device it is (like 
ra1 or so,
the CD player is called RRD40 IIRC).
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Gregg Levine | 18 Mar 2012 03:18
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Re: Using SIMH vax and NetBSD-5.1.2

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Anders Magnusson <ragge <at> ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
> On 03/17/2012 08:38 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> With this new faster system I decided that I could go ahead and try
>> again with running NetBSD via SIMH-vax and indeed I managed to launch
>> the CD in the install mode.
>>
>> However there is one specific stumbling block. In this case its the CD
>> itself, despite having been booted that way the installer claims that
>> the mount string:
>> "
>>    Status: Command failed
>>     Command: /sbin/mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
>>      Hit enter to continue
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /mnt2: Device not configured
>> "
>> is not working. That is the command is shown there. Otherwise the
>> instructions that Lars Brinkhoff created work well enough with this
>> release (of SimH). Otherwise I also find that I would need to tell the
>> installer what the networking method is for the Ethernet widget is so
>> that I could also fetch the sets from the NetBSD site and its mirrors
>> to make a network based install also work.
>>
>> Suggestions please gentlemen.
>>
> I assume that you use ka650 as CPU?  Then the CD reader is a MSCP device,
> and you should look at the boot messages about which device it is (like ra1
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David Brownlee | 26 Mar 2012 14:36
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VAXStation console cable

I've just acquired a VAXStation 4000/90a (yum) and now find myself in
the market for a serial console cable, ideally to connect to PC9.
IIRC I could get an RJ11 cable, cut off the connector and wire the
other end to a plug, but does anyone have any other
suggestions/suppliers? :)

thanks!
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Martin Husemann | 26 Mar 2012 15:01
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Re: VAXStation console cable

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:36:45PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> I've just acquired a VAXStation 4000/90a (yum) and now find myself in
> the market for a serial console cable, ideally to connect to PC9.
> IIRC I could get an RJ11 cable, cut off the connector and wire the
> other end to a plug, but does anyone have any other
> suggestions/suppliers? :)

It is not RJ11 but MJ11, IIRC.
I was able to find a MJ11<->MJ11 cable on ebay and cut it in two halfes, then
added DB9 and connected to a usb<->serial thing.

There is a switch on the front (hidden behind a small door) that you need
to set for serial console. Do you have a frame buffer installed? You can
use the same cables/keyboards as early alphas for those.

Martin
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Valeriy E. Ushakov | 26 Mar 2012 16:44
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Re: VAXStation console cable

Martin Husemann <martin <at> duskware.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 01:36:45PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
>> I've just acquired a VAXStation 4000/90a (yum) and now find myself in
>> the market for a serial console cable, ideally to connect to PC9.
>> IIRC I could get an RJ11 cable, cut off the connector and wire the
>> other end to a plug, but does anyone have any other
>> suggestions/suppliers? :)
> 
> It is not RJ11 but MJ11, IIRC.

ISTR serial was MMJ ("hook" moved to the side) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Modular_Jack

MJ11 was for keyboards (hook in the centre).

-uwe
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