NetBSD 6 on Cobalt still broken

[John Klos]

Hello,

It seems that NetBSD 6 on Cobalt is still broken. I don't have a serial
console, but after upgrading I was getting tons of core dumps if I tried
to use the system for more than a handful of minutes at a time. I was
finally able to untargzip each of the sets after a number of restarts, but
it's still problematic. This may still be the problem experienced in PR
46890.

I'm about to try current to see if the problem is there, too.

(netbsd-6, sources from today, Cobalt Raq 2 with 256 megs which has been
stable with netbsd-5 compiling for hundreds of days)

Is anyone running netbsd-6 on a Cobalt Raq or Cube? Or on any MIPS?

Thanks,
John

[Andy Ruhl]

Post by John Klos
Hello,
It seems that NetBSD 6 on Cobalt is still broken. I don't have a serial
console, but after upgrading I was getting tons of core dumps if I tried to
use the system for more than a handful of minutes at a time. I was finally
able to untargzip each of the sets after a number of restarts, but it's
still problematic. This may still be the problem experienced in PR 46890.
I'm about to try current to see if the problem is there, too.
(netbsd-6, sources from today, Cobalt Raq 2 with 256 megs which has been
stable with netbsd-5 compiling for hundreds of days)
Is anyone running netbsd-6 on a Cobalt Raq or Cube? Or on any MIPS?

I tried 6 a while back but it was crashing. I assumed the hardware was
bad since it hadn't run for a while. I might have some time to try it
again in the next few days. I have a Cube2.

Andy

[John Klos]

NetBSD-current is broken, too. While untargzipping OS sets, I'm seeing
strangeness like this:

tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory:
./usr/share/locale/***@quot/LC_MESSAGES
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory:
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.ISO8859-1
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory:
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.ISO8859-1/LC_MESSAGES
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory:
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.ISO8859-15
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory:
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.ISO8859-15/LC_MESSAGES
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory:
./usr/share/locale/en_AU.UTF-8
tar: Cannot malloc 47 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
tar: Cannot malloc 46 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
...
tar: Cannot malloc 31 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
tar: Cannot malloc 30 bytes (Cannot allocate memory)
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory: ./var/db/postfix
tar: Unable to store mode and times for directory: ./var/games/hackdir
tar: Cannot set permissions on (No such file or directory)
tar: Access/modification time set failed on: (No such file or directory)
tar: Cannot set permissions on (null) (Bad address)
tar: Access/modification time set failed on: (null) (Bad address)


This is from nyftp.netbsd.org, HEAD, 28-December-2013. Hmmm...

John