Hello!

On 3/9/21 12:28 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

I tried hard installing Debian/sparc64, it was not easy at all and haven't concluded.

The T2000 I started from had Linux already installed, with an older 4.x series kernel,
I'd guess not updated since 3 years. It was working and was configured with SILO. I tried
updating but the boot partition was too small to fit old and new kernels, also the (partially?)
installed 5.x kernel on reboot entered in an endless loop of crashes I could not stop nor log.

Unfortunately the fresh install I did with one of the working ISOs suffers from the same crashes!

I then went on with snapshots, going back from the latest I found...

2020-11-16 -> this one worked! (but system is unbootable due to crash, of that in a second mail)

This sounds like a hardware problem. The newer images should all work on sparc64 with a few
images that don't.

Can you make sure the memory is ok, i.e. by installing Solaris?

Adrian

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Hi,

I tried hard installing Debian/sparc64, it was not easy at all and
haven't concluded.

The T2000 I started from had Linux already installed, with an older 4.x
series kernel, I'd guess not updated since 3 years. It was working and
was configured with SILO. I tried updating but the boot partition was
too small to fit old and new kernels, also the (partially?) installed
5.x kernel on reboot entered in an endless loop of crashes I could not
stop nor log.

Unfortunately the fresh install I did with one of the working ISOs
suffers from the same crashes!


I then went on with snapshots, going back from the latest I found...

2020-11-16 -> this one worked! (but system is unbootable due to crash,
of that in a second mail)

Later, all these die with in the same manner:
-- with 2020-12-03
-- with 2021-01-03
-- with 2021-02-02

Mar  8 23:43:22 main-menu[272]: WARNING **: Menu item 'localechooser'
failed.
Mar  8 23:43:22 main-menu[279]: /var/lib/dpkg/status: No such file or directory
Mar  8 23:43:22 main-menu[279]: WARNING **: Configuring 'libdebian-installer4-u
Mar  8 23:43:22 main-menu[279]: WARNING **: Menu item 'localechooser'
failed.
Mar  8 23:43:22 kernel: [   33.630772] random: crng init done
Mar  8 23:43:41 main-menu[279]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit
from 'hi
Mar  8 23:43:41 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to medium
Mar  8 23:43:41 kernel: [   52.813059] main-menu[279]: segfault at 8 ip 0000010
Mar  8 23:50:59 init: process '/sbin/debian-installer' (pid 238) exited. Schedu
Mar  8 23:50:59 init: starting pid 293, tty '/dev/ttyHV0': '/sbin/debian-instal

<....>

Mar  8 23:51:00 debconf: Setting debconf/language to en
Mar  8 23:51:00 kernel: [  491.248772] main-menu[312]: segfault at 8 ip 0000010]

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Hi Adrian

the world is small between SPARC and PPC :)

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

2020-11-16 -> this one worked! (but system is unbootable due to crash, of that in a second mail)

This sounds like a hardware problem. The newer images should all work on sparc64 with a few
images that don't.

Can you make sure the memory is ok, i.e. by installing Solaris?

The system had a previously working Debian install, just old.

I also found luckliy the older kernel probably from the CD:


Linux narya 5.9.0-2-sparc64-smp #1 SMP Debian 5.9.6-1 (2020-11-08)
sparc64 GNU/Linux

and with this one the system appears running stable in SMP (32 CPUs!). I
did some massive compilation on all 32 CPUs, stressed a bit the system
and it appears working.

I'd say the system is quite stable, no memory errors.


Riccardo

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