From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 22:40:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA16196 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts15-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA16186 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA03152; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 22:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Josef Karthauser cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot-Time Memory Allocation Problem?? :-( In-Reply-To: <19970901205304.41045@pavilion.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 1 Sep 1997, Josef Karthauser wrote: > Can anyone shed any light on this please? > > It appear as if I've introduced a memory allocation problem into > my FreeBSD-stable (2.2) machine. :( > > I've just done a cvsup/make/install operation, and rebuilt the kernel > from my old config file. Now the system won't boot. It gives the following > error (copied by hand): > > ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers > swapon: adding /dev/sd0b as swap device > swapon: adding /dev/sd1b as swap device > swapon: adding /dev/sd2b as swap device > Automatic reboot in pregress... > /dev/rsd0a: clean, 658202 free (...... etc......) > cannot alloc 7179074 bytes for lncntp > /dev/rccd0a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. > /dev/rccd0c: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > > > It then breaks with a the usual single user shell prompt. You didn't bother to quote the amount of memory detected by the kernel. What is the total size of ccd0, and does /etc/login.conf exist? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo