Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:22:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Wayne M Barnes <stabilizer@klentaq1.emergingtech.org> To: blk@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Stable) Subject: Re: -STABLE kernel panics during install... Message-ID: <199904071422.OAA17323@klentaq1.emergingtech.org> In-Reply-To: <19990407215247.018654@relay.skynet.be> from Brad Knowles at "Apr 7, 1999 9:52:47 pm"
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Don't 'pull rc.conf from defaults'.
Instead, cp /etc/defaults/rc.conf /etc/rc.conf.local, and then
edit rc.conf.local.
Otherwise, a nasty loop is engendered by code at the end of rc.conf,
causing 'Out of file descriptors'. Other fixes for this have
been posted, but evidently not accepted.
Wayne M Barnes stabilizer@klentaq1.emergingtech.org
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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,
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