From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 25 16:18:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156B337B416; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id B79C94B65D; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:18:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:18:01 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: re@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3 Message-ID: <20020126001801.GL5153@freebsdmall.com> References: <87634.1011997394@winston.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87634.1011997394@winston.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've done at least 10 installs of the different RCs and I haven't run into this, so I'm very interested in finding a reproducible case. Most of my installs were also of "X-developer". Has anyone else seen this? Is there anything special about the hardware you installed to? - Murray On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:23:14PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Unfortunately, this one seems to be in the "heisenbug" category which > is why I didn't flag it as a show-stopper when it started getting > reported by others in -stable, referring to the 4.4-snapshot releases > they were installing from ftp://stable.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD. > > I don't know when/how it crept in, but there now appears to be a bug > which manifests itself during sysinstall's distribution extraction > phase, always while installing the src distribution (my canonical > installation profile for testing developer installs is X-developer). > > I also believe it's actually a kernel panic or hard hang vs sysinstall > croaking because no signal is caught and the kernel does not panic > with "init died" - the system simply hard hangs and you can't switch > VTYs or interact in any way with the system. Just to make this even > more annoying, the bug does not seem to manifest itself if you have > Debug mode selected or are on VTY2 when the crash happens. I'm still > pursuing a 100% reproductible test case, but it's an evil problem. > > - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message