From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Jan 26 7:32:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D5937B416; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 24B414B65D; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:32:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:32:45 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: [jkh@winston.freebsd.org: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3] Message-ID: <20020126153245.GW5153@freebsdmall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Has anyone else seen something like this? I just performed 3 more 4.5-RC3 installations with varied installation parameters but I was unable to cause a failure. If you're lurking on this list looking for a way to contribute, please pull down RC3 and let us know if you can corroborate Jordan's phantom-bug. Thanks, - Murray ----- Forwarded message from Jordan Hubbard ----- From: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3 To: re@freebsd.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:23:14 -0800 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 ----- End forwarded message ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message