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Subject: misc/16310: Installation crashes with error "a signal 11 was caught"
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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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