On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:35:08AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > OK, this is strange, now the loading attempt hangs. stracing it shows > looping... > 8250 29680 1 - Loading 0x0000000010054000 Unloading the module also didn't work the same way... so I figured it might be another unclean upgrade issue, so I rebooted it to see what happens when I start from scratch - and then a much more serious problem arose: at the point during the boot sequence when udev detected and loaded the modules, the machine reproducibly crashes (tried it twice in a row). The serial console seems to gets jumbled because the error message overwrites the last few lines, and then the ALOM prints its reset notice on top of the screen. This is my reproduction of the last output: Serial: 8250/16550 driver4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled [a couple of assorted messages from tg3] Fatal Error Reset CPU 0000.0000.0000.0000 AFSR 0080.0000.0000.0000 JEIC AFAR 0000.0000.0000.0000 SC Alert: Host System has Reset -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html