Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:35:24 GMT From: Nick Hilliard <nick@eunet.ie> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/2781: Installation problem Message-ID: <199702201935.TAA00345@lazarus.eunet.ie> Resent-Message-ID: <199702202010.MAA05058@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 2781 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Installation crashes if timeout in ftp transfer >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 20 12:10:01 PST 1997 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Nick Hilliard >Organization: EUnet Ireland >Release: FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386 >Environment: Nothing special >Description: The system installation prodecure will reliably crash if trying to install through a firewall and if the installer is not set up to use passive FTP connections (i.e. if the FTP "PORT" command times out during installation. The Debug console on ttyv1 generates something like the following line: DEBUG: Unexpected signal 11 caught! That's bad! This message get continuously written to the console until the machine is physically reset (ctrl-alt-del doesn't work on any of the VC's) >How-To-Repeat: Select "FTP" instead of "FTP passive" from the installation media menu in sysinstall when the route between your and the FTP server is suitably firewalled to disallow non PASV ftp sessions. When the system starts to retrieve the files, the program crashes as described. >Fix: Weird! I can't find the error message anywhere in the source (using find /usr/src |xargs grep Unexpected). Who's hiding the code? :-) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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