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Date:      Wed, 9 Feb 2000 03:30:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/16144: FreeBSd 3.4. /stand/sysinstall cores when accessing 'distributions' menu
Message-ID:  <200002091130.DAA91721@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR i386/16144; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To: Francois Berjon <berjon@bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: i386/16144: FreeBSd 3.4. /stand/sysinstall cores when accessing 'distributions' menu
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 00:30:59 +0200

 Please listen to what /etc/motd says to you,
 then go and read the errata for 3.4-RELEASE:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.4R/errata.html
 
 On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 08:30:04AM -0800, Francois Berjon wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR i386/16144; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Francois Berjon <berjon@bcv01y01.vz.cit.alcatel.fr>
 > To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, paul@iaehv.nl
 > Cc:  
 > Subject: Re: i386/16144: FreeBSd 3.4. /stand/sysinstall cores when accessing 
 >  'distributions' menu
 > Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 17:28:20 +0100
 > 
 >  Basically the same problem for me: selecting "custom distributions" in
 >  the
 >  distributions menu yields an instant segfault every time.
 >  
 >  Context: 'Custom' installation of 3.4-RELEASE, system booted from 3.4 
 >           kern/mfsroot floppies.
 >  
 >  I had no problems getting into the top-level 'Distributions' menu.
 >  Selecting
 >  one of the canned sets (in particular X-kern-developer) works OK. But
 >  selecting
 >  the "Custom distributions" options produces and instant and systematic
 >  segfault.
 >  I could not get a core or analysis as the machine of course immediately
 >  reboots.
 >  
 >  There does not seem to be an extremely specific chain of events leading
 >  to
 >  this situation: segfault is immediate upon selecting the "custom
 >  distributions" 
 >  option, irrespective of the operations performed before.
 >  
 >  That bug is non-fatal in the sense that it is still possible to install
 >  a 3.4 machine with one of the canned filesets, but this makes a custom
 >  installation
 >  impossible. Makes it pretty serious, IMHO :-)
 >  
 >  Francois.
 >  
 > 
 > 
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