From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 14 07:58:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA21668 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 07:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA21632 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 1997 07:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id AAA20795; Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:28:08 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708141458.AAA20795@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.2.2-RELEASE is driving me up the bloody wall!!!!! In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970814102540.009df330@cybercom.net> from The Classiest Man Alive at "Aug 14, 97 10:25:40 am" To: ksmm@cybercom.net (The Classiest Man Alive) Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 00:28:08 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Classiest Man Alive stands accused of saying: > At 12:38 PM 8/14/97 +0930, Michael Smith wrote: > >rdkeys@csemail.cropsci.ncsu.edu stands accused of saying: > >> I have had perfect success getting the 3.0 snaps going and the 2.1.7.1 > >> going on various machines, but 2.2.2 is driving me up the wall!!!! > >> > >> What gives......? > > > >Do you have 48M of memory, by any chance? > > I just had a failed 2.2.2-RELEASE installation last night and I *do* have > 48M of RAM? Do you know something? Spill it, man! There is a bizarre bug in the 2.2.2-RELEASE kernel that causes a fatal trap if and only if you have 48M of memory. If you have 32, 40, 56, 64M or anything else, it works fine, but 48M is fatal. You can either remove some memory for the install, or (preferably) install a later snapshot of the 2.2-STABLE tree from releng22.freebsd.org > K.S. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[