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Date:      Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:42:00 -0700
From:      walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [7.0] /bin/sh segfaulting during boot
Message-ID:  <frbldu$uoi$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803111048.m2BAmn4f077561@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <fr4g4d$5af$1@ger.gmane.org> <200803111048.m2BAmn4f077561@lurza.secnetix.de>

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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 suspected the same, so I ran memtest86 overnight with no errors.
I compiled sh with debugging symbols -- and it won't crash so I
still can't get a backtrace.  Very frustrating.  But at least I
have a working sh :o)




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