[9fans] panic on install from live CD

[9fans] panic on install from live CD

[Alasdair Reed]

Hi,

I ahve been trying to install plan9 on a standalone pc from the live CD, downloaded about 2-3 days ago from the plan9 site.

The live CD has run ok on my system .

Upon attempting to install after setting up
DMA = on (have tried =off too)
mouse=ps2intellimouse (tried ps2 too)

vga= as suggested





etc when the interface starts I get a message like this
**output begins here
cpu0: registers for bind 120

Flags=10297 Trap=E E Code=2 PC F0100A3D SS=F3F0 USP=20A55

AX 00000011 BX 00000006 CX 00000000 DX 00000009
S1 00000001 D1 000020ASE BP 00000009
CS 0010 DS 0008 ES 0008 FS 001b GS 0017

MCA 40de 1064a MCT fc0000000000d1dd

ur f0e42f34 up f0233318

panic: fault: 0x9

cpu0 exiting

dump stack disabled

cpu0 exiting


**end of output

The numbers after GS may not be correct, i copied it down on paper having no way to save it, couldn't read the result there to well.

I tried a few times and got varying messages at the beginning of the output

"cpu0: registers for sleep"

"cpu0 registers for window 114" 

differing values for the mid-section.

and at the end invariably:

panic: fault: 0x9
It does not seem that the error is repeatable.

The system is a dual boot system (Windows98/NetBSD) the boot is handled by GAG Bootloader.

Here is the output of dmesg from NetBSD will give an idea of the hardware

NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006
        builds@b3.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200607131826Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
	total memory = 383 MB
	avail memory = 367 MB
	BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfdb10
	mainbus0 (root)
	cpu0 at mainbus0: (uniprocessor)
	cpu0: AMD Athlon XP 1600+  (686-class), 1400.19 MHz, id 0x662
	cpu0: features c3cbfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR>
	cpu0: features c3cbfbff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MPC,MMXX,MMX>
	cpu0: features c3cbfbff<FXSR,SSE,3DNOW2,3DNOW>
	cpu0: "AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+ "
	cpu0: I-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way, D-cache 64 KB 64B/line 2-way
	cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 64B/line 16-way
	cpu0: ITLB 16 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries fully associative
	cpu0: DTLB 32 4 KB entries fully associative, 8 4 MB entries 4-way
	cpu0: 8 page colors
	pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
	pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
	pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
	pchb0: VIA Technologies VT8363 (Apollo KT133) Host Bridge (rev. 0x03)
	agp0 at pchb0: aperture at 0xe0000000, size 0x10000000
	ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: VIA Technologies VT8363 (Apollo KT133) PCI to AGP Bridge (rev. 0x00)
	pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
	pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
	vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: Nvidia GeForce2 MX 100/200 (rev. 0xb2)
	wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
	wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
	pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
	pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C686A PCI-ISA Bridge (rev. 0x40)
	viaide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1
	viaide0: VIA Technologies VT82C686A (Apollo KX133) ATA100 controller
	viaide0: bus-master DMA support present
	viaide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
	viaide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
	atabus0 at viaide0 channel 0
	viaide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode
	viaide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
	atabus1 at viaide0 channel 1
	uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller (rev. 0x1a)
	uhci0: interrupting at irq 9
	usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
	uhub0 at usb0
	uhub0: VIA Technologies UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
	uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
	uhci1 at pci0 dev 7 function 3: VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller (rev. 0x1a)
	uhci1: interrupting at irq 9
	usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
	uhub1 at usb1
	uhub1: VIA Technologies UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
	uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
	VIA Technologies VT82C686A SMBus Controller (SMBus serial bus, revision 0x40) at pci0 dev 7 function 4 not configured
	auvia0 at pci0 dev 7 function 5: VIA Technologies VT82C686A AC'97 Audio (rev 0x50)
	auvia0: interrupting at irq 10
	auvia0: ac97: Avance Logic ALC200/ALC201 codec; headphone, 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, Realtek 3D
	auvia0: ac97: ext id 605<AC97_22,AMAP,SPDIF,VRA>
	audio0 at auvia0: full duplex, mmap, independent
	emuxki0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: Creative Labs SBLive! EMU 10000 (audio mul, revision 0x07)
	emuxki0: ac97: SigmaTel STAC9708 codec; 18 bit DAC, 18 bit ADC, SigmaTel 3D
	emuxki0: ac97: ext id 80<SDAC>
	audio1 at emuxki0: full duplex, mmap, independent
	emuxki0: interrupting at irq 10
	joy0 at pci0 dev 10 function 1: Creative Labs PCI Gameport Joystick (rev 0x07)
	joy0: joystick not connected
	Lucent Technologies LTMODEM (miscellaneous communications) at pci0 dev 12 function 0 not configured
	rtk0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0: Realtek 8139 10/100BaseTX
	rtk0: interrupting at irq 9
	rtk0: Ethernet address 00:0a:cd:10:d4:f1
	ukphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
	ukphy0: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
	ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
	isa0 at pcib0
	lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378-0x37b irq 7
	com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
	com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
	pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
	pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
	pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
	wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
	pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
	pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot
	wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
	pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
	midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
	sysbeep0 at pcppi0
	isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
	npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
	fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
	isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
	fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
	Kernelized RAIDframe activated
	wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <WDC WD800BB-00JKC0>
	wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
	wd0: 76319 MB, 155061 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 156301488 sectors
	wd0: 32-bit data port
	wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100)
	wd1 at atabus0 drive 1: <MAXTOR 6L040J2>
	wd1: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
	wd1: 38172 MB, 77557 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 78177792 sectors
	wd1: 32-bit data port
	wd1: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133)
	wd0(viaide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
	wd1(viaide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 (Ultra/100) (using DMA)
	atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets
	cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <SONY    CD-RW  CRX175E, , 1.0j> cdrom removable
	cd0: 32-bit data port
	cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
	cd0(viaide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA)
	boot device: wd0
	root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
	root file system type: ffs
	wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
	wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
	wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
	wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)


## end of dmesg

checking on plan9 website my hardware would seem to be ok, unless I have missed something!!

Any help most grategully received.

Regards,

Alasdair

Re: [9fans] panic on install from live CD

[ron minnich]

       total memory = 383 MB
       avail memory = 367 MB

16 MB difference? Is this a framebuffer? Or ... could it be that Plan
9 does not know that memory is not really available?

How much memory is plan 9 reporting?

ron

Re: [9fans] panic on install from live CD

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 05:13:41PM -0500, ron minnich wrote:
>        total memory = 383 MB
>        avail memory = 367 MB
> 
> 16 MB difference? Is this a framebuffer? Or ... could it be that Plan
> 9 does not know that memory is not really available?
> 
> How much memory is plan 9 reporting?
> 
> ron

Hi Ron,

Plan 9 is reporting 

384M Memory: 155M kernel data, 228M user 857M swap

at start-up of Live CD

Regards,

Alasdair

Re: [9fans] panic on install from live CD

[ron minnich]

hmm. So the trap is always E (page fault), but is it always 9? It
always says page fault: 9?

Usually when I've had this problem, which you seem to be getting some
time after processes are running, it's been problems with caches not
being flushed correctly after context switch, and thus processes
returning from kernel mode with a stack which is some other procs
stack. Or the tlb flush failing which can result in similar issues.
I'm hardly the expert here however.

Any chance you can get this on serial console? It might help.

thanks

ron

[9fans] plan9 web site down @ 9:35 pm PST

[Lawrence E. Bakst]

The plan 9 web site apears to be down:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

Re: [9fans] plan9 web site down @ 9:35 pm PST

[andrey mirtchovski]

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i blame...

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Re: [9fans] plan9 web site down @ 9:35 pm PST

[Charles Forsyth]

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it's probably the snow

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From: "Lawrence E. Bakst" <ml@iridescent.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] plan9 web site down @ 9:35  pm PST
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:37:58 -0800
Message-ID: <p06240805c377f4711f54@[192.168.0.7]>

The plan 9 web site apears to be down:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

Re: [9fans] plan9 web site down @ 9:35 pm PST

[Eric Van Hensbergen]

the snow has me hung up in chicago at the moment.  only adding an hour
and half at this point (knock on wood)....

              -eric


On Dec 2, 2007 8:25 AM, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> it's probably the snow
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Lawrence E. Bakst" <ml@iridescent.org>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 21:37:58 -0800
> Subject: [9fans] plan9 web site down @ 9:35 pm PST
> The plan 9 web site apears to be down:
>
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/
>

Re: [9fans] panic on install from live CD

[Juan M. Méndez]

Alasdair Reed wrote:
> Flags=10297 Trap=E E Code=2 PC F0100A3D SS=F3F0 USP=20A55
>
> AX 00000011 BX 00000006 CX 00000000 DX 00000009
> S1 00000001 D1 000020ASE BP 00000009
> CS 0010 DS 0008 ES 0008 FS 001b GS 0017
>
> MCA 40de 1064a MCT fc0000000000d1dd
>
> ur f0e42f34 up f0233318
>
> panic: fault: 0x9
>
> cpu0 exiting

I'm afraid I'm not of much help but recently I was told to email this
kind of problems
to 9trouble@plan9.bell-labs.com.

--Vej

Re: [9fans] panic on install from live CD

[Alasdair Reed]

On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 08:06:55PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> hmm. So the trap is always E (page fault), but is it always 9? It
> always says page fault: 9?
> 
> Usually when I've had this problem, which you seem to be getting some
> time after processes are running, it's been problems with caches not
> being flushed correctly after context switch, and thus processes
> returning from kernel mode with a stack which is some other procs
> stack. Or the tlb flush failing which can result in similar issues.
> I'm hardly the expert here however.
> 
> Any chance you can get this on serial console? It might help.
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron

Hi Ron,

I will try to get it  on serial console, but I've never attempted it before. My knowldge of such (and Plan 9) is scant at v. best. But I'm keen to install Plan 9 and keen to learn.
>From research on the net I understand I would need to connect to another  computer with a null modem, is this correct? I have  another i386 PC . The other PC has Win XP installed and nothing else. Do you have some tips on how to proceed or links to a website that has a tutorial on it.

Any suggestions?
Very grateful for your help so far.

Regards,
Alasdair