Re: DEC Multia VX40 - missing login on serial port, shutdown strangeness

Antoni Sawicki wrote:
> Have you upgraded firmware to the latest version (I think it was 3.8)?
> Sometimes it helps to flash again and reset all settings to factory
> default.

I'm unsure of how to do this without a floppy drive. But yes, I have an
older firmware version (3.5-72).

> Have you actually redirected SRM to the serial port by "set console
> serial"?

Is there a manual for SRM somewhere that I should know about?
I just tried this and bad things happened.

stray isa irq 3
stray isa irq 4
softraid0 at root
siop0: target 3 now using tagged 8 bit 10.0 MHz 8 REQ/ACK offset xfers
root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b
WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
Automatic boot istray isa irq 4
panic: trap
Stopped at      Debugger+0x4:   ret     zero,(ra)
RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC!
DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION!
ddb> trace
Debugger(4, fffffc0000854d70, 5, 8, 3, fffffc0000000008) at Debugger+0x4
panic(fffffc0000829620, fffffe0001f99b48, 108, 2, fffffe0001f99b48, fffffe0001f
99ae4) at panic+0xe8
trap(?, 1, 0, ?, ?, fffffe0001f99ae4) at trap+0xc0
XentMM(?, 1, 0, ?, ?, fffffe0001f99ae4) at XentMM+0x20
tulip_tx_intr(?, ?, ?, 10, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_tx_intr+0x160
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
tulip_txput(?, fffffc00006173dc, ?, ?, a, fffffe0001f99ae4) at tulip_txput+0x79
8
...
...
  and it continues...
ddb> ps    
   PID   PPID   PGRP    UID  S       FLAGS  WAIT          COMMAND
 17671  17354  27505      0  3        0x82  poll          dhclient
 17354  27505  27505     77  3      0x4182  poll          dhclient
 27505      1  27505      0  3      0x4082  pause         sh
    10      0      0      0  3    0x100200  bored         crypto
     9      0      0      0  3    0x100200  aiodoned      aiodoned
     8      0      0      0  3    0x100200  syncer        update
     7      0      0      0  3    0x100200  cleaner       cleaner
     6      0      0      0  3    0x100200  reaper        reaper
     5      0      0      0  3    0x100200  pgdaemon      pagedaemon
     4      0      0      0  3    0x100200  pftm          pfpurge
     3      0      0      0  3    0x100200  bored         syswq
*    2      0      0      0  7    0x100200                idle0
     1      0      1      0  3      0x4080  wait          init
     0     -1      0      0  3     0x80200  scheduler     swapper