Re: [9fans] 9vx instability

[Akshat Kumar <akumar@mail.nanosouffle.net>]

What are the problems with trying to boot it natively
(by the way, you probably won't be able to drive the
wireless card, if you do get it to boot native)?
Have you tried Erik Quanstro's 9atom kernel?


ak

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Anton <fluffylime@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Recently I've discovered Plan 9 and I'm fascinated by it's numerous
> beauties, and I want to try it for more or less regular use, probably port
> something.
> However, as it won't work on my laptop natively, i'm forced to use 9vx
> (running in kvm is too slow). It has one magor drawback - it is freezing my
> entire system after some random time.
> Symptoms are - no reaction on input (mouse/keyboard), no changes in output
> (screen is showing me what was going on just before freeze). The only thing
> I can do is to press power button for 10 secs and wait until my laptop
> turned off.
> I've tried to find the reasons of this behaviour, but all system logs are
> silent - last kernel.log messages are prior to hang, the same with
> messages.log and Xorg.log, console output from 9vx are empty, too. What
> causes the hang is also seems unclear - it can froze on 9vx startup, or when
> I use terminal, or installing something, or just browsing web (not in 9vx)
> in chrome, while 9vx window is hidden.
> My system:
> Linux hippo 3.0-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 19 12:14:48 UTC 2011 i686
> Intel(R) Core(TM) Duo CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux (Archlinux)
> 9vx-hg (checked out 2011.11.17) - cmd line (9vx -r 9front -u glenda)
> 9front iso image - 9front-1131.664b953bfdde (I've copied it's contents and
> `chmod -R u+w`ed it)
> xf86-video-intel 2.16.0 - VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation
> Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> xorg-server 1.11.2
> xorg-apps 7.6
> Also, I've seen the following message for a few times: "9vx panic: sigsegv
> on cpu7", but I don't know if it related to freeze (it can show up in the
> middle of my boot-work-freeze session).
> Previously, I've used stock Plan 9 from Bell Labs with 9vx - it has the same
> problem.
> P.S.: Sorry for my English.
> Anton.