Hi Doug,
Thanks for your reaction!
Doug wrote:
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> 2. The NFS connection (I have a RedHat 5.1 Intel as server) seems
> a little flaky. Several times I was installing a package using
> RPM, and it would die with "Illegal Instruction (core dumped)"
> or "Segmentation Fault (core dumped)". Strangely, when you
> tried it again, it often worked, and when I got to the point of
> mounting the root file system on a SCSI disk, the rpm commands
> worked on every package first try. So I think it is the NFS
> connection.
Did you get any NFS error messages on the console or /var/log/messages?
I had NFS problems when running over NFS root, but this resulted in
slowdowns (time-out), but never a fatal error.
> 3. fdisk, cfdisk, vipw and several other commands don't work. It's
> interesting that they don't always give the same error message. For
> example, I tried fdisk several times. I got one of the three messages:
> Bus error, Segmentation fault, or Illegal instruction. Which one seems
> to be random, but it's mostly Segfault. I've never observed this on
> Intel/Linux. Usually if a program segfaults once, it always does.
I think the util-linux packaged I used to create the root image was
compiled for R4k procs. Please try the new util-linux rpm package on
my web site http://www.xs4all.nl/~vhouten/mipsel
> 4. Something in the shutdown sequence doesn't seem to be correct,
> although I'm going to try and track this one down myself. If
> root is mounted NFS, it goes into a loop saying
> "RPC: sendmsg returned error 128"
I think you are trying to remount a NFS mounted FS read-only, this might
be an oversight of me checking the rc files.
> If I mounted the SCSI, it comes back up on the next boot saying
> not cleanly unmounted, and this drops me into maintenance mode.
> Unfortunately, e2fsck also randomly gives a segfault or illegal
> instruction, so you have to do it several times. It works eventually.
This is strange. What type of SCSI controller do you use?
> 5. Trying to copy large files (linux source) over the NFS link causes
> either segfault, illegal instruction, or bus error. Again, which seems
> to be random. Trying to ftp the same file leads to segfault, so I
> haven't been able to get the linux source image on my SCSI disk yet.
>
> Aside from these few observations, everything is working fairly well,
> and I had the system up for almost a day yesterday.
Mmm. You seem to have network and SCSI problems. Could it be a hardware
problem?
What DECStation are you using?
Regards,
--
Karel van Houten
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The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better."
I can't understand why it won't work on my Linux computer.
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