Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2004 09:59:16 GMT From: O.Hartmann@edda.physik.uni-mainz.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/72278: Installworld crashes machine Message-ID: <200410030959.i939xGBk000736@edda.physik.uni-mainz.de> Resent-Message-ID: <200410031010.i93AASNX068112@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 72278 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Installworld crashes machine >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Oct 03 10:10:27 GMT 2004 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: EDDA & >Release: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 i386 >Organization: University of Mainz, Department of Geophysiscs >Environment: System: FreeBSD edda.physik.uni-mainz.de 5.3-BETA7 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 #4: Sun Oct 3 08:47:02 UTC 2004 root@edda.physik.uni-mainz.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/EDDA i386 >Description: Doing an upgrade of FreeBSD from FreeBSD-BETA6 i to FreeBSD-BETA7 the recommended way leaves my system completely unusuable due to a weird <biord> stuck while doing "make installworld". After the system wrote several files it freezes. I can type something into the console, type Ctrl-T offers some messages about "install <biord> xxx xxx xxx" or similar. I followed the steps recommended when upgrading: make buildworld, make kernel, reboot kernel in single user mode, make installworld. I also realzied, that booting an alternative kernel (I saved my old kernel) results in a stuck console (single user kernel, normal booted kernel, both beta 6 and beta 7 kernels). After crashing and trashing my system two times and rebuild took three days I did a final experiment: installed BETA6 from disk (got a lot of BTX loader haltet, but I realized this was due to some memory problems I never had before). Then did a cvsupdate to get the most recent BETA7 stuff, compiled a kernel, booted this kernel in single user mode and did simply a 'find /'. After a few seconds the system froze at the same point as when doing a regular installworld. I rebooted the the system into multiuser mode with the same kernel (BETA7) with ACPI/SMP enabled and did a installworld the old way using the /usr/src/installworld_old script. Everything got installed well! My kernel config is a GENERIC config with several driver not used commented out. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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