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Date:      Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:54:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mike D Tancsa <mdtancsa@sentex.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cant allocate memory for fsck on bootup
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971105145151.1415B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199711051916.OAA19353@granite.sentex.net>

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On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Mike D Tancsa wrote:

> 
> P133, FreeBSD 2.2-RELENG cvsup'd Nov 3. 128M ram, AHC 2940.  
> 
> It was running a 2.2 snapshot from August or so.  Now when
> I boot, the boot dies with a message something similar
> to 'cant malloc stat' just before doing an fsck on a 4gig
> SCSI drive.  When I run fsck manually, the drive comes up
> clean with no errors or warnings.  But when I reboot, the
> same problem comes up.  Again, I run fsck, no errors, and
> type exit, the bootup process continues without problem.
> 
> Any idea what the problem might be ?

You should copy login.conf from /usr/src/etc and rebuild the login
capability database as described in that document.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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