From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 16:40:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEB31065673 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC258FC27 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JZqTt-00084a-BF for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:37 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-220-238.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.220.238]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:37 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-220-238.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:37 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: walt Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:42:00 -0700 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <200803111048.m2BAmn4f077561@lurza.secnetix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-220-238.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 3.0a1pre (X11/2008031307) In-Reply-To: <200803111048.m2BAmn4f077561@lurza.secnetix.de> Sender: news Subject: Re: [7.0] /bin/sh segfaulting during boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:40:44 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > walt 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. I suspected the same, so I ran memtest86 overnight with no errors. I compiled sh with debugging symbols -- and it won't crash so I still can't get a backtrace. Very frustrating. But at least I have a working sh :o)