From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 2 11:14:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19277 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA19217 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 11:13:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA02756; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 19:12:05 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19970902191204.09530@pavilion.net> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 19:12:04 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot-Time Memory Allocation Problem?? :-( References: <19970901205304.41045@pavilion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81 In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Mon, Sep 01, 1997 at 10:40:13PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, Sep 01, 1997 at 10:40:13PM -0700, Doug White wrote: > 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? Oops, memory detected by the kernel: kern.ostype: FreeBSD kern.osrelease: 2.2-STABLE kern.osrevision: 199506 kern.version: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE #1: Wed Jul 30 18:57:48 BST 1997 joe@zebedee.pavilion.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWS hw.machine: i386 hw.model: Pentium Pro hw.ncpu: 1 hw.byteorder: 1234 hw.physmem: 99110912 hw.usermem: 76451840 hw.pagesize: 4096 ccd0: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 1907503 1244654 510249 71% / /dev/ccd0c 7799131 3457378 3717823 48% /data procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc And we using the stock login.conf (from /usr/src/etc/login.conf) Joe > > 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 -- Josef Karthauser Technical Manager Email: joe@pavilion.net Pavilion Internet plc. [Tel: +44 1273 607072 Fax: +44 1273 607073]