Stuff and that

[juliet]

Cycling through Hyde Park yesterday evening, I saw someone on a Segway. An actual, real Segway, in the flesh. Blimey. Looked most peculiar.

After a rather splendid weekend (of which hopefully writeup later), I was absolutely knackered yesterday, & despite 2 decent nights' sleep yesterday & Sunday, still pretty knackered today. Never mind. This feeling of exhaustion is probably not assisted by the fact that I am attempting to install Debian on a Sun box & not getting very far ("Fast Data Access MMU Miss"). Googling reveals that other folk have run into this error, but doesn't locate much of assistance for solving it; and the TFTP install I tried as an alternative is also unhappy. Grr.

In other news: the garden is doing rather well, which makes me happy. Despite the label clearly saying that our blackberry and raspberry canes shouldn't fruit until *next* year, the blackberry is already showing a few little unripe blackberries, and the raspberries are certainly flowering merrily which I *assume* will also result in fruit... Thumbs crossed. The grape vine is doing well as well - should have *lots* of grapes this year. And the new lot of rocket seedlings have started to appear, yay.

Comments

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

I have lots of grapes too across the fence in my back garden. They mostly rotted on the vine as I didn't do anything with them. If you do come up with some plan to make wine or such like then give me a shout and I'll donate some of mine.

[juliet]

I was pretty much just going to eat them - that's what we did last year. They're a bit tart, but I thought they were quite nice. Don't think there'd be anything like enough to make 'em into anything, sadly.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

what about grape jelly (ie that stuff they always eat in American novels that i'm assuming is some form of grape JAM)?

Or dry them out to make raisins and make CAKES! :)

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

How about bulking the grapes out with something else.

Apples would add a lot of bulk, and are fairly easy to process.

[karen2205]

We once tried (when I was about 8) to make wine with the apples found at the bottom of our garden and it was horrendous (not sure I drank any, but *nobody* like it, (there was too much sugar in it) and we never tried it again). We may still have some bit left eg. the glass jars for putting the mixture in, so shout if you'd like them, but, as I say, it was a very long time ago, so I'm not sure if they've been thrown out or not.

[simonb.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling of being knackered; ended up working from home yesturday after trying to get out of bed and managing to fall over instead.

Which Sun system is it you're getting the "Fast Data Access MMU Miss" on ?

A quick google found that its often seen in 400MHz UltraSPARC CPUs with 8Mb of memory; the solution there is to limit the Ecache size (http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?bbs_sun.19247), update the PROM and then unlimit the Ecache. The error is normally associated with issues with the OpenBoot PROM so upgrading that is normally the way to go.

On machines with a LOM (Lights Out Management) it can also be due to there not being any users within the LOM.

[juliet]

It's a SunBlade 100 - the limit-ecache-size command isn't available on them (I tried this earlier & just got 'limit-ecache-size ?' back), apparently (according to threads elsewhere) because they're not supposed to be affected by this problem. There seems to be some indication that it's just to do with which kernel you happen to be using, so I might try using the testing image instead of stable, see if that works.

Cheers!

[simonb.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, we've got a couple of those at work. It could be the version of the PROM in use on them, although I doubt it as I can't seem to find updates to the PROM for the SunBlade 100 systems on SunSolve.

You can see the PROM version by using .version from the OBP; the following was taken from one of our SunBlade 100s:

ok .version
Release 4.5 Version 9 created 2002/02/07 02:12
OBP 4.5.9 2002/02/07 02:12 Sun Blade 100
POST 2.0.1 2001/08/23 17:13
OBDIAG 4.5.9 2002/02/07 02:13  
ok

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Definitely use a testing image. Stable is creaking-old now. I note that Beta 4 of the installer comes as a CD or as a "netinst" image - try those.

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/