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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:47:48 +0100
From:      Eilko Bos <eilko@bos-zuidema.nl>
To:        walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [7.0] /bin/sh segfaulting during boot
Message-ID:  <20080313174748.GA669@webmail.home.brasapen.org>
In-Reply-To: <frbldu$uoi$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <fr4g4d$5af$1@ger.gmane.org> <200803111048.m2BAmn4f077561@lurza.secnetix.de> <frbldu$uoi$1@ger.gmane.org>

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>From the keyboard of walt, written on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0700:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> walt<w41ter@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   >  I'm now running RELENG_7 on three x86 machines, but (only) one of
>>   >  them is behaving badly during bootup.
>>   >
>>   >  Once the rc.d scripts start to run, I see /bin/sh crashing dozens of
>>   >  times before I finally see the login prompt.  A few of the normal
>>   >  processes actually start okay, like ppp and named (this is my home
>>   >  firewall), but many normal daemons like syslogd and sendmail are
>>   >  not running.
>> 
>> Last time I had symptoms like that, it turned out to
>> be bad RAM.

I've also seen this problem when upgrading from 6.3 -> 7.0, booting from half
a mirror. I could not find the exact cause of it, reinstall of 7.0 fixed the
problem.

Grtz,
--
Eilko.



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