From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 5 14:54:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA15823 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:54:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA15818 for ; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:54:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA01427; Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:54:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 14:54:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike D Tancsa cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant allocate memory for fsck on bootup In-Reply-To: <199711051916.OAA19353@granite.sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Mike D Tancsa wrote: > > P133, FreeBSD 2.2-RELENG cvsup'd Nov 3. 128M ram, AHC 2940. > > It was running a 2.2 snapshot from August or so. Now when > I boot, the boot dies with a message something similar > to 'cant malloc stat' just before doing an fsck on a 4gig > SCSI drive. When I run fsck manually, the drive comes up > clean with no errors or warnings. But when I reboot, the > same problem comes up. Again, I run fsck, no errors, and > type exit, the bootup process continues without problem. > > Any idea what the problem might be ? You should copy login.conf from /usr/src/etc and rebuild the login capability database as described in that document. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major