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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 18:35:45 -0800
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Subject: misc/799: sysinstall segfaults if part of distribution missing
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>Number:         799
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       sysinstall segfaults if part of distribution missing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 29 18:40:01 PST 1995
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Traina
>Organization:
Shockwave Engineering
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-0-951026-SNAP
>Environment:

System is an i386/33 with an ESDI drive on wd0.
Boostrap floppy from the 951026 snapshot.
Installing "Kern-Developer" distribution via FTP from user-specified URL.

The URL pointed to what was *supposed* to be a mirror of ftp.cdrom.com,
but wasn't because I forgot to copy down the proflibs directiory contents
but just had an empty proflibs/ subdirectory.

>Description:

Install is going just fine, the manual pages extract and I get:

"Fatal signal 11 caught! I'm dead."

on VTY2, the last messages were:

DEBUG: Parsing attributes file for distribution proflibs
DEBUG: Aborting FTP connection
DEBUG: FTP shutdown called.  FTP = 197880

>How-To-Repeat:

Try to install 951026 on an empty machine via ftp from a user-specified URL
with proflibs empty.

>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: