From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Nov 22 7:57:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFD6E37B408 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail16.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.216]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3686743EB2 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 07:57:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (qmail 23982 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2002 15:57:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail16.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 22 Nov 2002 15:57:34 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAMFvT2D042660; Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:57:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:57:33 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Robert Watson Subject: Re: i386/42162: Installation (sysinstall) crashes, md0c filled u Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> 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. >> >> -- >> >> John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ >> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message >> > -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message