NetBSD Problem Report #35202
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From: kyu.dev@gmail.com
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To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: SPARC64:
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>Number: 35202
>Category: install
>Synopsis: partition menu breaks
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: martin
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Dec 07 18:45:00 +0000 2006
>Last-Modified: Sun Dec 30 09:05:10 +0000 2018
>Originator: kyu
>Release: 3.1
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
Uname not on the installer image? NetBSD 3.1 sparc.
>Description:
This is the dmesg from an OpenBSD install that was running on it - Couldn't produce a NetBSD dmesg from the installer:
Script started on Thu Dec 7 18:13:40 2006
# dmesg^M^M
console is keyboard/display^M
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993^M
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.^M
Copyright (c) 1995-2006 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org^M
^M
OpenBSD 4.0 (GENERIC) #953: Sun Sep 17 00:56:22 MDT 2006^M
deraadt@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC^M
total memory = 536870912^M
avail memory = 479723520^M
using 3276 buffers containing 26836992 bytes of memory^M
bootpath: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3,0/disk@0,0^M
mainbus0 (root): Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (UltraSPARC-IIi 400MHz)^M
cpu0 at mainbus0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi @ 400 MHz, version 0 FPU^M
cpu0: physical 32K instruction (32 b/l), 16K data (32 b/l), 2048K external (64 b/l)^M
psycho0 at mainbus0 addr 0xfffc4000: SUNW,sabre, impl 0, version 0, ign 7c0^M
psycho0: bus range 0-2, PCI bus 0^M
psycho0: dvma map c0000000-dfffffff, iotdb 126a6000-12726000^M
pci0 at psycho0^M
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 1 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x11^M
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1^M
ebus0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Sun PCIO Ebus2" rev 0x01^M
auxio0 at ebus0 addr 726000-726003, 728000-728003, 72a000-72a003, 72c000-72c003, 72f000-72f003^M
power0 at ebus0 addr 724000-724003 ipl 37^M
"SUNW,pll" at ebus0 addr 504000-504002 not configured^M
sab0 at ebus0 addr 400000-40007f ipl 43: rev 3.2^M
sabtty0 at sab0 port 0^M
sabtty1 at sab0 port 1^M
comkbd0 at ebus0 addr 3083f8-3083ff ipl 41: layout 46^M
wskbd0 at comkbd0: console keyboard^M
com0 at ebus0 addr 3062f8-3062ff ipl 42: mouse: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo^M
lpt0 at ebus0 addr 3043bc-3043cb, 30015c-30015d, 700000-70000f ipl 34: polled^M
"fdthree" at ebus0 addr 3023f0-3023f7, 706000-70600f, 720000-720003 ipl 39 not configured^M
clock1 at ebus0 addr 0-1fff: mk48t59^M
"flashprom" at ebus0 addr 0-fffff not configured^M
audioce0 at ebus0 addr 200000-2000ff, 702000-70200f, 704000-70400f, 722000-722003 ipl 35 ipl 36: nvaddrs 0^M
audio0 at audioce0^M
hme0 at pci1 dev 1 function 1 "Sun HME" rev 0x01: ivec 0x7e1, address 08:00:20:93:e5:99^M
nsphy0 at hme0 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 PHY, rev. 1^M
vgafb0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "ATI Mach64 GT" rev 0x9a^M
wsdisplay0 at vgafb0: console (std, sun emulation), using wskbd0^M
pciide0 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "CMD Technology PCI0646" rev 0x03: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI^M
pciide0: using ivec 0x7e0 for native-PCI interrupt^M
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST310211A>^M
wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9541MB, 19541088 sectors^M
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2^M
atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0^M
scsibus0 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets^M
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <GoldStar, CD-ROM CRD-8240B, 1.24> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable^M
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2^M
ppb1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "Sun Simba PCI-PCI" rev 0x11^M
pci2 at ppb1 bus 2^M
"DEC Compaq SMART RAID 42xx" rev 0x01 at pci2 dev 4 function 0 not configured^M
pcons at mainbus0 not configured^M
No counter-timer -- using %tick at 400MHz as system clock.^M
root on wd0a^M
rootdev=0xc00 rrootdev=0x1a00 rawdev=0x1a02^M
# ^D^M^M
Script done on Thu Dec 7 18:13:44 2006
(Excuse the ^M's)
The NetBSD sysinst starts correctly, after sets have been chosen the disklabel menu appears, upon selecting "Set Sizes of NetBSD partitions" the below message appears:
Screen too narrow (70 + 2 > 66) for menu "Untitled"
sysinst terminated.
Standard display, 15" tft connected.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: port-sparc64-maintainer->install-manager
Responsible-Changed-By: martin@netbsd.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:50:14 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
This is not sparc64 specific
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kyu.dev@gmail.com
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:52:25 +0100
This message means that sysinst has tried to create a menu that is
bigger than your screen. This menu is created dynamically, from the
current partition info. Could you show the output of "disklabel" on
your machine?
Thanks,
Martin
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kyu.dev@gmail.com
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 21:44:41 +0100
Another point: it seems you are using the on-board graphics, and I
suppose you left the TERM type at the default "sun" - I wonder what
text resolution you end up with (and why it is so small)
Martin
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:59:30 +0000
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 07:55:02PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: kyu.dev@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 20:52:25 +0100
>
> This message means that sysinst has tried to create a menu that is
> bigger than your screen.
The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.
Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which probably
makes this a sparc bug.
IIRC there is another PR of a similar nature.
David
--
David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:18:17 +0100
Could you try a -current or 4.0 beta snashot from the daily build area on
ftp.netbsd.org? These are wscons based and do not use the prom font.
Martin
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:26:31 +0000
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>
> The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
> sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.
>
> Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which probably
> makes this a sparc bug.
Some thoughts...
The sparc prom will expect a screen resolution of 1152x864 (just under
1M pixels with a same aspect ratio) - which is what sun frame buffers
almost always were (going back to the sun3 even).
Your 15" LCD monitor is probably 1024x768, the font that gives 80 columns
with 1152 pixels gives fewer columns with only 1024 pixels....
David
--
David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
From: "Neil Houston" <kyu.dev@gmail.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:43:17 +0000
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Thanks for all the feedback!
Just checked out
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200612050000Z/sparc64 and
it's empty?
Also, the screen is defo 66 colums wide and 27 high, which is a little
weird, the system has openboot 3.31. I have a massive 17" crt sitting in the
next room i could lug through to try if that would help?
Cheers,
kyu
On 07/12/06, David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> wrote:
>
> The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:26:31 +0000
>
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> >
> > The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
> > sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.
> >
> > Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which
> probably
> > makes this a sparc bug.
>
> Some thoughts...
> The sparc prom will expect a screen resolution of 1152x864 (just under
> 1M pixels with a same aspect ratio) - which is what sun frame buffers
> almost always were (going back to the sun3 even).
>
> Your 15" LCD monitor is probably 1024x768, the font that gives 80 columns
> with 1152 pixels gives fewer columns with only 1024 pixels....
>
> David
>
> --
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
>
>
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Thanks for all the feedback!<br><br>Just checked out <a href="ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200612050000Z/sparc64">ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200612050000Z/sparc64</a> and it's empty?<br>
<br>Also, the screen is defo 66 colums wide and 27 high, which is a little weird, the system has openboot 3.31. I have a massive 17" crt sitting in the next room i could lug through to try if that would help?<br><br>
Cheers,<br><br>kyu<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 07/12/06, David Laight <<a href="mailto:david@l8s.co.uk">david@l8s.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
The following reply was made to PR install/35202; it has been noted by GNATS.<br><br>From: David Laight <<a href="mailto:david@l8s.co.uk">david@l8s.co.uk</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org">gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
</a><br>Cc:<br>Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)<br>Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 22:26:31 +0000<br><br> On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:05:06PM +0000, David Laight wrote:<br> ><br> > The error message also says that the screen size is 66 columns wide.
<br> > sysinst does rather expect 80 colums and 24 lines.<br> ><br> > Something unusual must be going on with the console font - which probably<br> > makes this a sparc bug.<br><br> Some thoughts...<br> The sparc prom will expect a screen resolution of 1152x864 (just under
<br> 1M pixels with a same aspect ratio) - which is what sun frame buffers<br> almost always were (going back to the sun3 even).<br><br> Your 15" LCD monitor is probably 1024x768, the font that gives 80 columns<br> with 1152 pixels gives fewer columns with only 1024 pixels....
<br><br> David<br><br> --<br> David Laight: <a href="mailto:david@l8s.co.uk">david@l8s.co.uk</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>
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From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge@sympatico.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:27:01 -0500
This problem is still present with the 4.0 sysinst installer, I just
ran into it. (For anyone else who's run into this, I also found an IRC
transcript that details someone else's attempts to work around the
issue: http://ircarc.com/freenode-netbsd/364.html .)
Dave
From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david@gutteridge.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: install/35202 (partition menu breaks)
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 18:32:22 -0500
Another user later reported this occurred on macppc with NetBSD 5.0 as
well[1]. Perhaps this is duplicable on any architecture where the
console font is sufficiently large and the screen size sufficiently
small? (Of course, the commonality is all reports involve machines
using OpenFirmware.) I mention this because there was discussion here
about it being a "Sparc bug", it's evidently more prevalent. (I no
longer have the Ultra 5 and the CRT I used to duplicate this with
back in the 4.0 era.)
1. https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2009/07/03/msg000782.html
Dave
Responsible-Changed-From-To: install-manager->martin
Responsible-Changed-By: martin@NetBSD.org
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 09:05:10 +0000
Responsible-Changed-Why:
Take
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