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Date:      Sun, 16 Jan 2000 04:37:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      paul@iaehv.nl
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   i386/16144: FreeBSd 3.4. /stand/sysinstall cores when accessing 'distributions' menu
Message-ID:  <20000116123723.D7CD014C19@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         16144
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FreeBSd 3.4. /stand/sysinstall cores when accessing 'distributions' menu
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jan 16 04:40:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Paul Kolenbrander
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.4
>Organization:
PKS Computer Problems
>Environment:
FreeBSD dax.pks.fdns.net 3.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE #4: Sun Jan 16 03:10:39
 CET 2000     root@dax.pks.fdns.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/DAXKERNEL  i386
>Description:
I've encountered a weird problem in updating the below system from 
FreeBSD 3.1 to FreeBSD 3.4. After the upgrade /stand/sysinstall cores 
when I access the 'dictributions' menu. Figuring the upgrade went awry, I 
completely wiped the hd's and installed 3.4 afresh. Same problem. So I 
wiped it again and installed 3.3 instead. Again the same problem. So I 
ended up reinstalling 3.1 on a clean system. /stand/sysinstall works 
fine. Does anybody have any idea what may be causing this? As it prevents 
me fromn getting at, amongst others, the kernel sources. :-( Have there 
been changes in /stand/sysinstall or one of it's components since 3.1 
that may be causing this?

Output of 'strings sysinstal.core | more' produced the following interesting
line: 'erflow pages.  Increase page size'

Note: I installed another system from the same 3.3/3.4 CD's and there /stand/sysinstall
runs fine. System specs for that system are available on http://pks.fdns.net/

System Specifications
---------------------
Motherboard: Intel TC430HX with onboard Yamaha sound and 2Mb S3 VIRGE
                    Phoenix BIOS, 1.00.07.DH0 (last available BIOS)
CPU            : CPU: 133Mhz Pentium/P54C (132.96-MHz 586-class CPU)
                    Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x52c  Stepping = 12
                    Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
Memory     : 64MB, 2 x 32M  EDO DIMM
Ethernet     : Generic PCI (Realtek based) NE-2000 clone 
             ( I use it in my other FBSD 3.3 system without problems. 
Video      : S3 Virge 2MB
             vga0: <S3 ViRGE graphics accelerator> 
             rev 0x06 int a irq 11 on pci0.8.0
keyboard   : Standard 104 keys
Mouse      : PS/2 Mousepad (swapped with mouse, no change)
             psm0 irq 12 on isa
             psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
Drives     : Standard floppy
             wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <NEC Corporation DSE2010A> [MASTER]
             wd0: 1919MB (3931200 sectors)
             wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <Seagate ST3660A>
             wd2: 520MB (1065456 sectors) [MASTER]
             wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <HITACHI CDR-8130/0021>, [SLAVE]
             removable, accel, dma, iordy
>How-To-Repeat:
On my system, run /stand/sysinstall and click on the 'distributions' menu item.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
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