Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:14:48 -0800 From: James Strother <strother@uci.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: installation causes panic Message-ID: <45CA5D68.9060703@uci.edu>
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Hi, I've been trying to get FreeBSD 6.2 up and going on an AMD64 machine of mine, but have encountered a few problems. Most of the issues are minor annoyances, but I can't get around the last one for the life of me. Please let me know which bugs are known (I searched and couldn't find any of the following reported), and any help on the last issue would be most appreciated. Issue 1. During the installation, a menu asks which package group should be installed. If I use the arrows to select "X-Kern-Developer" then hit SPACE it immediately goes to the next screen. This seems to be a bug, the box should be selected but the installer should not progress to the next screen until the OK button is selected. As is, the behavior is inconsistent with every other menu in the installer. Issue 2. After hitting Issue 1, I decided to select a different package group so I hit Cancel. Somehow I wound up back at the beginning of the installer, which was fine. But when I re-started the install I never got the option of what package groups to install or whether or not I wanted the ports. In order to "really" restart I had to reboot the machine. Issue 3. After finishing the installation of selected ports, I get a menu that asks whether I would like to install other users/groups. When I hit ENTER after highlighting "User", the installer crashed giving me the message "panic: going nowhere without my init!" then something about having no device to dump. Issue 4. After Issue 3, I normally would have copied down the exact text to send in a report. However, it seems to reboot automatically after 15s, while providing no means to stop the countdown. The auto- restart seems counter-productive. Why would I be in such a rush to restart the system after a failed install? Might as well leave the message so that bug reports can be reported with more information. Issue 5. After restarting the install, I successfully got through it the next time (I did essentially the same thing, which suggests that Issue 3 is intermittent at best). I installed KDE during the initial install, and setup KDM as per the handbook. However, when I log out of KDE the colors get messed up. It looks like some color table is getting corrupted so that certain colors are rendered as other colors. For example, it looks like what should be a sky blue is now rendered lime green. This happens every time I log out of KDE, every time I use the machine. If it matters, I'm using a GeForce 6200 card. Let me know what other details are needed. Thanks in advance, Jim Strother -- James Strother McHenry Laboratory UC-Irvine
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