From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 3 22:58:28 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA08481 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 22:58:28 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA08473 for ; Fri, 3 Feb 1995 22:58:19 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id RAA22846; Sat, 4 Feb 1995 17:54:03 +1100 Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 17:54:03 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199502040654.RAA22846@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: The all-singing, all-dancing install... Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode >... >instruction pointer = 0x8:0xf01c04eb >... >f01c04bc t _init_scp <---- likely culprit > ... >My guess is that it puked while trying to write to /dev/ttyv1, which >didn't exist because syscons was disabled. I'm not sure what the proper >fix for this would be, except possibly some extra sanity checking >somewhere. Yes, scopen() of /dev/ttyv1 doesn't check if syscons is configured. Bruce