From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 20:29:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5FAF14BF8 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:29:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA26252 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:29:15 +1100 (EDT) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-50-137.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.50.137]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA29743 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:29:15 +1100 (EDT) Received: (qmail 16815 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Mar 1999 04:29:14 -0000 Message-ID: <19990302042914.16814.qmail@areilly.bpc-users.org> From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:29:14 +1100 (EST) Subject: 3.1 upgrade story and---Fwd: Cron /usr/libexec/atrun To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Last weekend I upgraded my system from 2.2.8 to 3.1, mostly to get the CAM SCSI stuff, so that I can use all 640M on my Fujitsu MO drive. I upgraded using the binary distribution. That mostly went fine, although there was some hair involved in making the sysinstall program find the distribution I'd downloaded. Nothing I could do would make it see the copy I'd put on an MSDOS C: partition, but it worked OK when I copied it to a FFS directory. I also ran into problems associated with running out of space on my 32M root partition during the upgrade process. I don't really understand what happened here, but I found some sort of recursively unpacked stand/sbin hierarchy under /mnt. Thankfully the install has a few other virtual terminals available, so I was able to clean things up as it went, and keep it going. The first couple of times I booted, it wouldn't get to multi-user state, complaining of ".:no file descriptors". I suspect that this was the result of some not-quite right configuration in /etc/, because the problem went away after I finished dealing with /etc/upgrade, in single-user mode. Just before I did the upgrade, I yanked 32M of the 48M of memory I had in this box, because some testing had shown that it was broken. While I was trying to use the system with 16M (but buckets of swap space), it would crash (reboot) quite easily, without a panic: message or any log messages. That was while running X, KDE and Netscape. It was appallingly slow, but I don't think that crashing is a particularly satisfactory response. I've since added another 16M of memory, and things are much happier, but a few minutes ago I received the following message: ------ Forwarded message ------ From: root@areilly.bpc-users.org (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron /usr/libexec/atrun Date: 2 Mar 1999 04:15:01 -0000 To: root@areilly.bpc-users.org CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page. Anyone know what to make of that? Thanks in advance, -- Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message