Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 07:14:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Yaad Golani <usey@actcom.co.il> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/42162: Installation (sysinstall) crashes, md0c filled up. Message-ID: <200208291414.g7TEEDem094138@www.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 42162 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: Installation (sysinstall) crashes, md0c filled up. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 29 07:20:02 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Yaad Golani >Release: FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE >Organization: none >Environment: FreeBSD Hmpf 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Aug 27 16:00:17 IDT 2002 root@Hmpf:/usr/src/sys/compile/USEY i386 >Description: Greetings and Salutations. I've been a Linux user for six years now, and recently decided to move into the magical BSD world. I asked here and there, and decided the best distribution for me would be FreeBSD. Since I don't have a CD-R, and yet wanted to try out the new operating system immediately (or atleast, as soon as possible), I downloaded the two boot images, copied them into floppy disks and rebooted my computer happilly. The installation screen popped up. I proceeded with a `STANDARD' mode, and granted the FreeBSD Partition 6 GBs of HDD. Then the disk label asked me how would I like to allocate my space; but since I don't know how it should be (although I know the general structure of the system), I chose the [A] option, which does it all automatically, in order to prevent future-to-be painful problems and extra head aches. Then I was asked to choose the type of media I'd like to install it from, so I chose `FTP Installation', selected a customized FTP server which is geographically close to me, adjusted the network settings, chose a _functioning_ DNS which I use on a daily basis, and took off. But then something weird happened; it failed to resolve the FTP's hostname into a numerical IP address -- and thus login to it. I thought "Oh well, maybe there's something wrong with the DNS at the moment", CTRL ^C 'ed, and pressed the option of restarting the sysinstall (so I wouldn't have to reboot the machine). then I've chosen the same options EXACTLY. Same mount points, same disk range.. even the same DNS. Surprisingly, this time it worked and I received the following messages; "Extracting bin into / directory ..." -- downloaded eight files or so, BUT THEN! : "Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 240440 bytes)", "/: Write failed, file system is full", "Pid 79 (cpio), uid 0 on /: file system is full", and so on. So I switched to F4, typed "df -h" and saw the following table: FileSystem size used avail capacity mounted on /dev/md0c 4.1m 4.1m -40.5k 101% / /dev/ad0s1a 126m 2.4m 113m 2% /mnt /dev/ad0s1f 252m 2.0k 232m 0% /mnt/tmp .. As you can see, it looks like the ram disk (md0c) has filled itself up for some reason, instead of doing whatever is it that it was supposed to do. After receiving these error messages, I had no other choice but rebooting the system. Needless to say I have tried different variations of modes (custom, expert, standard, FTP servers and what-not) a several times, but every time it failed to resolve the FTP's hostname the first time and I had to restart it, until it hit me -- I was so obsessed with the md0c (which I didn't know what it stands for at that time) and sure that I've done something wrong with the partitioning and/or slicing, that I didn't link the act of restarting sysinstall with the failure of the installation. So then, instead of entering an "ftp://hostname/ ...", I entered a direct IP address. That worked perfectly well and now I'm reporting that bug out of my new FreeBSD system ;-) What still remains a mystery to me, though, is that sysinstall always failed to resolve the hostname the first time, but succeeded the second. Anyway, just wanted to report that thingy.. hope you guys could get it fixed in the next release. -Cheers! Ya'ad Golani. >How-To-Repeat: I guess you could just try to use a non-working DNS server, restart sysinstall with CTRL-C and the restarting option, and try again. >Fix: I have no idea ;-) G'luck. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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