RE: [Netatalk-admins] HELP - Solaris 7 crashing with dds streams module error?

[Bjoern F. <li...@fe...>]

> We've got a sun 220R running Solaris 7, freshly patched to=20
> 106541-34. This=20
> is our main user file server and it's been hanging and or crashing=20
> repeatedly (more so since we turned kernel debugging on. It=20
> seems to be=20
> elated to atalk's dds streams module. Is this something that=20
> is fixed in a=20
> more recent release of atalk and/or is it something we can do=20
> something=20
> else about?

There have been some really minor changes to the kernel module code =
itself
in 2.0, basically only to allow loading the module with Solaris 9.
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> I'm not sure what version this is except that it was around=20
> in 12/2001.=20
> Found this string: 1.4b2+asun2.1.4

Current kernel module is basically the same code, there have been =
changes in
the build process/includes.
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> >!! The stream at 0x3000a4ab8d8 has big problems.  Searching the=20
> >Sunsolve !! bug reports database, I see this matches SUN=20
> bug# 4977979=20
> >which is !! marked as "incomplete" although engineerings comments=20
> >indicate this is !! not likely an "hme" ethernet driver bug, but is=20
> >likely a "ddp" (3rd !! party) streams module bug.  Recommendation:
> >
> >* Contact the folks who support the "ddp" streams module=20
> you're using.
> >   Send them this analysis which SUN has provided.  Ask them=20
> to look at
> >   our analysis and perhaps perform their own analysis of=20
> the vmcore.2
> >   dump.  They might recognize this as a confirmed bug in=20
> the "ddp" module
> >   revision you're using and be able to provide you with a fix.

Personally, I have never heard of *this* problem with the ddp module =
before.
AFAIK there's currently nobody maintaining that code.

Bjoern