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Subject: Re: [7.0] /bin/sh segfaulting during boot
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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.

Best regards
   Oliver

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