From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 7 12:57:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from out0.mx.skynet.be (out0.mx.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5D315866 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 12:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@pb0.mx.skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by out0.mx.skynet.be (8.9.3/odie-relay-v1.0) with SMTP id VAA20913 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:54:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 2.4b2 X-URL: http://www.skynet.be x-sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 21:52:47 +0200 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Brad Knowles Subject: -STABLE kernel panics during install... Message-Id: <19990407215247.018654@relay.skynet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ____________________________________________________________________ |o| Brad Knowles, Belgacom Skynet NV/SA |o| |o| Systems Architect, News/mail/FTP Admin Rue Col. Bourg, 124 |o| |o| Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.11.11/12.49 B-1140 Brussels |o| |o| http://www.skynet.be Belgium |o| \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Unix is like a wigwam -- no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside. Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message