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Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 02:48:32 GMT
From: Dominique Brazziel <dbrazziel@snet.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: FTP download from floppy boot crashes with msg "Invalid realloc of size 0!"
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>Number:         71323
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [sysinstall] FTP download from floppy boot crashes with msg "Invalid realloc of size 0!"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    linimon
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 03 02:50:25 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:    Thu May 08 22:52:06 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Thu May 08 22:52:06 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Dominique Brazziel
>Release:        5.2.1
>Organization:
N/A
>Environment:
N/A - command not available at this point   
>Description:
While trying to download/load FreeBSD via FTP, download halts while loading the base to / with message:

  Fatal Error:  Invalid realloc of size 0!  Reboot

I have tried it with both releases 5.2.1 (fails after 65%) and 5.1 (fails after 53%).            
>How-To-Repeat:
Select standard installation, then developer-kernel-X, then all fonts and other packages.       
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-qa 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Sep 16 03:47:13 GMT 2004 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to sysinstall maintainer(s). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71323 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 25 21:50:53 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this still a problem with modern versions of FreeBSD? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->linimon 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Jan 25 21:50:53 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
track. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71323 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: vwe 
State-Changed-When: Thu May 8 22:51:58 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  

We're sorry to not see any feedback received for quite some time. 
If you think this is still an issue that should be worked on, 
please provide the requested information and we'll be happy to 
re-open this ticket. 
Thank you for bringing this problem to attention! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=71323 
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