Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 23:02:13 -0800 (PST) From: amesbury@uswest.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/16310: Installation crashes with error "a signal 11 was caught" Message-ID: <20000123070213.417F014F6A@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 16310
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Installation crashes with error "a signal 11 was caught"
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jan 22 23:10:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Alan Amesbury
>Release: v3.4 (Walnut Creek CD, January 2000)
>Organization:
U S WEST !NTERPRISE
>Environment:
Not available. Hardware is a Pentium III (500MHz) w/ 512MB RAM, 9GB U2W
SCSI, Adaptec 7896 controller, and Intel EtherExpress (fxp0).
>Description:
Installation aborts because of a signal 11. Program suggests enabling
Debug output, but that doesn't seem to help much. The second virtual
terminal shows several lines beginning with "DEBUG:" but the only errors
reported are "rm: not found" (before probing for networking hardware)
and "DEBUG: Signal 11 caught! That's bad!" immediately after gunzip'ing
/stand/help/drives.hlp.gz, /stand/help/distributions.hlp.gz (which both
return "status of 0").
>How-To-Repeat:
I was able to repeat it multiple times. The steps I followed were:
1) Boot from floppy images cut from /floppies directory on CD.
2) Enter kernel configuration, full-screen mode and
* under "Storage" disable all except floppy disk controller
* disable all network support under "Network"
* leave everything else alone
3) From /stand/sysinstall Main Menu, select Custom (4th option)
4) In "Options"
* turn debugging on
* turn DHCP on
* set editor to /usr/bin/vi
5) In "Partition" delete any existing partitions, then select "Use
Entire Disk" and leave the boot manager untouched on exit
6) In "Label" set up partitions as follows:
* 1000M for / (add newfs option "-m 5" to existing options)
* 768M for swap
* 5000M for /var/mail (add newfs option "-m 0" to existing options)
* remainder for /var/spool/mqueue (add newfs option "-m 0" to
existing options)
Save and return to previous menu.
7) In "Distributions" select "Custom" (option 8). Installation crashes.
>Fix:
No idea.....
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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