Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:57:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/42162: Installation (sysinstall) crashes, md0c filled u Message-ID: <XFMail.20021122105733.john@baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021121185325.77113E-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On 21-Nov-2002 Robert Watson wrote:
> Did we ever manage to kick the restart bugs...? There were reports of
> problems with DP2, I thought.
No. I really don't think the restart code is all that safe as it only
works in a limited number of situations. So far it hasn't worked in any
of the situations that I have attempted to use it.
> Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
> robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
>
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
>
>> The following reply was made to PR i386/42162; it has been noted by GNATS.
>>
>> From: John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>
>> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
>> Cc: murray@FreeBSD.org
>> Subject: Re: i386/42162: Installation (sysinstall) crashes, md0c filled u
>> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:40:26 -0500 (EST)
>>
>> The problem is that sysinstall assumes that you have already done
>> the chroot into /mnt if you do a restart. However, this is not
>> always the case. Arguably since a restart kicks you back to the
>> main menu, sysinstall should always chroot() in install.c. At the
>> very least it should chroot if it hasn't done it yet. The line in
>> question is:
>>
>> if (!Restarting && chroot("/mnt") == -1) {
>>
>> in installInitial() in install.c.
>>
>> --
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