Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:52:47 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: -STABLE kernel panics during install... Message-ID: <19990407215247.018654@relay.skynet.be>
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Folks,
I've got a pretty plain-vanilla PC that I'm trying to install -STABLE
on (P2 400, 64MB RAM, 4GB Western Digital IDE hard drive, 3Com 3C9xx
10/100Base-TX ethernet card, etc...).
I go through and tell it that I want all the typical parts of the OS
installed, no problem (I only have to select which crypto parts I do/do
not want). I tell it which additional packages I want installed
(laboriously selecting *everything* but the Japanese, Korean, Russian,
and German stuff), spend half a day slogging through "XFree-whatever is a
required package but was not found" warning dialog messages (requiring
user input), and when it gets to installing gimp-1.x, it kernel panics.
When the machine reboots, the installation information I had provided
to it was not saved, so it doesn't know it's hostname, doesn't support
creating crash dumps, doesn't have it's IP address, doesn't have the
specified root password, etc.... It also sorely complains about squid
being started as root, and it *really* doesn't like that.
Opening /etc/rc.conf with vi, pulling in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and
changing the things that are obvious (especially including where crash
dumps may be written), then rebooting, leaves me with the error ".: Out
of file descriptors\nEnter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
right after the messages "npx0: INT 16 interface\nchanging root device to
wd0s1a".
Any ideas what might be wrong? Next thing I'm going to do is a fresh
re-install from scratch, but this time not select any third-party
packages to also install -- at least not until the bare OS is installed,
the machine has been rebooted and confirmed to work properly with that.
Thanks!
--
These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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