From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 14:23:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B85E37B402; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.freebsd.org (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0PMNEd87656; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.freebsd.org) To: re@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:23:14 -0800 Message-ID: <87634.1011997394@winston.freebsd.org> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unfortunately, this one seems to be in the "heisenbug" category which is why I didn't flag it as a show-stopper when it started getting reported by others in -stable, referring to the 4.4-snapshot releases they were installing from ftp://stable.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. I don't know when/how it crept in, but there now appears to be a bug which manifests itself during sysinstall's distribution extraction phase, always while installing the src distribution (my canonical installation profile for testing developer installs is X-developer). I also believe it's actually a kernel panic or hard hang vs sysinstall croaking because no signal is caught and the kernel does not panic with "init died" - the system simply hard hangs and you can't switch VTYs or interact in any way with the system. Just to make this even more annoying, the bug does not seem to manifest itself if you have Debug mode selected or are on VTY2 when the crash happens. I'm still pursuing a 100% reproductible test case, but it's an evil problem. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message