From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 14 9:46:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A1437B624 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-12.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13Zc9X-000Bgs-0C; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 16:46:24 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18539; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:47:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:46:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Matthew Jacob Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interesting new one In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > checking for core dump...savecore: no core dump > Doing additional network setup: ntpdate ntpd portmap ypbind. > Starting final network daemons: mountdpanic: kmem_malloc(301973504): kmem_map > too small: 6266880 total allocated > > syncing disks... I had this, something changed and mountd is passing the wrong shaped structure to mount(). The arguments are not checked very well by the kernel and it dies horribly. You can get to multiuser by simply deleting mountd and then rebuild from fresh sources. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8348 3944 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message