[grom371]

Hi! I just bought  my first SGI 
This is Octane - 2xR12000, EMXI
A system message appears during boot - LIP TSB not completed
After installation IRIX (I use 6.5.30 and 6.5.22) I try to run any demo and the system freezes and exits to login window
Doom works well. System software works ok too 
Hardware problem?

[Raion]

I don't think that boot message is related to your demo crashes. That's not a hardware issue.

No, your demos are probably not installed correctly. I have never cared for working demos so I always leave them out, but you may wanna try reinstalling them.

[robespierre]

LIP TCB means Fibre Channel's Loop Initialization Process Transmit Control Block. This message means that the Fibre Channel HBA was unable to establish communication with any FC devices (which is normal, since you didn't connect any).

Exit to login window sounds like Xserver crash
check dmesg for errors (run command 'dmesg' from a shell)
You could also check the syslog ('more /var/adm/SYSLOG')

[grom371]

Absolutely right!

AUDIT: Fri Oct 1 16:35:30 2021: 918 Xsgi: client 12 rejected from local host
Oct 1 16:35:30 3D:IRIS tfxd[1443]: Can't open X display
Oct 1 16:35:30 6D:IRIS tfxd[1443]: terminating

[jan-jaap]

Hardware problem?

Well, you could run the diagnostics to find out. Interrupt the boot when it says 'press ESC to ..." and you get the PROM menu screen. Option 3 starts the diagnostics.

The best way to do this is using a serial console. Disconnect keyboard & mouse, and connect a null modem cable to serial port #1. Use a PC with 'putty' on the other end, serial connection parameters 9600-n-8-1. You get the same menu at boot but on the serial connection.

If you use the regular screen to run diagnostics, the graphics tests take over the screen and you don't see error messages anymore ;-)

You've got an MXE board and it has 2 texture boards installed. If you get diagnostics results complaining about texture errors, try to re-seat them.

Otherwise: if you want a *much* quieter system and don't need the FC board in the bottom right quadrant, remove it. With an option board in that slot, the system always runs the fans in hurricane mode.

[grom371]

Thank you! I'll try

[grom371]

Starting diagnostic program...

                      Press <Esc> to return to the menu.

      Checking for Distribution CD-ROM on xio(0)pci(15)scsi(1)cdrom(6).
                    Booting IDE from Distribution CD-ROM.

    IDE CPU 1 [slave]
SGI Version 6.5 IP30 IDE field  Oct 10, 2002

                  System: IP30
                Processor: 400 Mhz R12000, 2M secondary cache
                Processor: 400 Mhz R12000, 2M secondary cache, (cpu 1)
              Memory size: 2048 Mbytes
                  Network: ef0 ethernet (100/10 base-T)
                SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)
              SCSI CDROM: scsi(1)cdrom(6)
                    Audio: RAD Audio Processor
                  GIO Bus: GALILEO15 (11)
                  PCI Bus: FIBRE_CHANNEL (9)
              PCI Device: slot 0 vendor 0x9004 part 0x1160 rev 4
              PCI Device: slot 1 vendor 0x9004 part 0x1160 rev 4
                Graphics: EMXI

Field included scripts (help_ide to get this again):
  ALL:    regular_tests
          extended_tests
  FRUs:  ip30  frontplane  memory
          pm (processor module)
          gfx  tmezz
  subsystems: serial (loopback)  ethernet (loopback)
  useful scripts:        help_ide  help_mem

    This test takes approximately 12 minutes on a good
    dual processor machine with 128MB memory and MXI graphics.

Testing Graphics in XIO slot 12
Testing TMEZZ option card.

Exception: <vector=Normal>
Status register: 0x34050082<CU1,CU0,FR,CH,DE,IPL=8,KX,MODE=KERNEL,EXL>
Cause register: 0x801c<CE=0,IP8,EXC=DBE>
Exception PC: 0xa800000020892844, Exception RA: 0xa80000002089295c
Data Bus error
HEART ISR :      0x4000000000000<TIMER>
HEART IMSR:      0x0
XBOW status: 0x1000000<LINK_8>
  Link 0x8 status: 0xffffffff80060000<LINK_ALIVE,MULTI,ILLEGAL_DST,BANDWIDTH_ALLOC_PORT=0x0>
      Aux status: 0x20<RCV_RETRIES=0,XMT_RETRIES=0,TIMEOUT_SRC=0x0,PORT=ON,PORT_SIZE=16>
Error command word: 0x0
        Error address: 0x0
IOC3 PCI status register: 0xa800146<SIG_TAR_ABRT>
  VID 0's saved user regs in hex (gpda=0xa800000020a1af28):
  arg: 3 0 0 a800000020912ffc
      0 0 0 a800000020a1af28
  tmp: a800000025e1c2f4 a800000020a1af28 1 9000000010000000
  sve: a800000020912f30 a80000002093c370 a80000002093c368 a8000000a0000000
      a800000020a033a0 a800000020a1af28 24 9000000010000024
  t8 1 t9 20929ca8 at 0
  v0 0 v1 7f k1 ffffffffbad11bad
  gp 0 fp 1 sp a800000020ac5390 ra a80000002089295c

PANIC: Unexpected exception

[Press reset or ENTER to restart.]


Is this solution? - You've got an MXE board and it has 2 texture boards installed. If you get diagnostics results complaining about texture errors, try to re-seat them.

[Irinikus]

I'd remove them first to see if the error goes away.

[jan-jaap]

The TMEZZ are the Texture Mezzanine cards. If you remove the graphics assembly from the system, and undo two nylon screws, yo can remove them from the graphics board. Irinikus is right -- you can run an MXE without the TMEZZ cards (it becomes an SSE). You have to remove both. I've seen this once maybe, and after cleaning the contacts with some pure alcohol, and re-seating them, the MXE worked fine again.

[grom371]

Thanks friends!

I checked without TMEZZ cards - all tests passed
I cleaned the contacts with alcohol and inserted and removed several times - FAULT (with error as abow)
I swapped modules - the same error.

one or both modules died?
I will search it on ebay and now use without them