Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 03:20:03 -0800 (PST) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/16310: Installation crashes with error "a signal 11 was caught" Message-ID: <200001231120.DAA49437@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/16310; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: amesbury@uswest.net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/16310: Installation crashes with error "a signal 11 was caught" Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:18:59 +0200 Why don't you guys see the ERRATA first? :-( On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 11:02:13PM -0800, amesbury@uswest.net wrote: > > >Number: 16310 > >Category: misc > >Synopsis: Installation crashes with error "a signal 11 was caught" > >Confidential: no > >Severity: serious > >Priority: medium > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Quarter: > >Keywords: > >Date-Required: > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 22 23:10:01 PST 2000 > >Closed-Date: > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: Alan Amesbury > >Release: v3.4 (Walnut Creek CD, January 2000) > >Organization: > U S WEST !NTERPRISE > >Environment: > Not available. Hardware is a Pentium III (500MHz) w/ 512MB RAM, 9GB U2W > SCSI, Adaptec 7896 controller, and Intel EtherExpress (fxp0). > >Description: > Installation aborts because of a signal 11. Program suggests enabling > Debug output, but that doesn't seem to help much. The second virtual > terminal shows several lines beginning with "DEBUG:" but the only errors > reported are "rm: not found" (before probing for networking hardware) > and "DEBUG: Signal 11 caught! That's bad!" immediately after gunzip'ing > /stand/help/drives.hlp.gz, /stand/help/distributions.hlp.gz (which both > return "status of 0"). > >How-To-Repeat: > I was able to repeat it multiple times. The steps I followed were: > > 1) Boot from floppy images cut from /floppies directory on CD. > 2) Enter kernel configuration, full-screen mode and > * under "Storage" disable all except floppy disk controller > * disable all network support under "Network" > * leave everything else alone > 3) From /stand/sysinstall Main Menu, select Custom (4th option) > 4) In "Options" > * turn debugging on > * turn DHCP on > * set editor to /usr/bin/vi > 5) In "Partition" delete any existing partitions, then select "Use > Entire Disk" and leave the boot manager untouched on exit > 6) In "Label" set up partitions as follows: > * 1000M for / (add newfs option "-m 5" to existing options) > * 768M for swap > * 5000M for /var/mail (add newfs option "-m 0" to existing options) > * remainder for /var/spool/mqueue (add newfs option "-m 0" to > existing options) > Save and return to previous menu. > 7) In "Distributions" select "Custom" (option 8). Installation crashes. > > >Fix: > No idea..... > > >Release-Note: > >Audit-Trail: > >Unformatted: > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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