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>Number:         16026
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       /stand/sysinstall segmentation fault when invoking Distributions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 10 07:00:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Tue May 16 09:21:59 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue May 16 09:22:29 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Norm Audet
>Release:        3.4/Release i386
>Organization:
PC Services
>Environment:
FreeBSD 3.4 RELEASE #0 Generic i386
>Description:
Starting with a minimum installation, I invoked /stand/sysinstall then Configure, then Distributions. Core dumped with segmentation fault. Also able to enter additional commands but no echo.
>How-To-Repeat:
Trying a different route, Index> Dists, Basic, gave the same result. Also Index> Dists, User, went as far as the Install Ports? screen and looped back to Index, regardless if yes or no is selected.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Martin-Legene, Robert" <robert.martin-legene@intel.com>
To: "'freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org'" <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>,
	"'support@thinserver.net'" <support@thinserver.net>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/16026: /stand/sysinstall segmentation fault when invokin
	g Distributions
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 01:20:32 -0800

 I got the same yesterday trying to install 3.4 an old Pentium. The =
 machine
 used to be a windows machine so maybe it's still trying to recover from
 that...
 
 But anyway, I spent 4 hours trying to debug this but had to give up. I
 installed several times and managed to get a minimal system running =
 without
 entering the Distributions. Running sysinstall over and over again =
 yielded
 the same result.
 
 ktrace/kdump doesn't show too much really. After going there it just =
 seems
 to get a SIGSEGV out of the blue... but sysinstall is stripped (and =
 some
 other good excuses) so gdb didn't tell me anything.
 
 The problem you have with the shell not echoing your commands is =
 because the
 tty has been told not to. "stty sane" bring this back to normal.
 
 > -- Robert Martin-Leg=E8ne
 >    The opinions expressed herein is solely my own and not Intel's.. =
 etcetc
 >=20
 
 

From: ugh@jps.net
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, support@thinserver.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/16026: /stand/sysinstall segmentation fault when invoking 
 Distributions
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 02:46:12 -0800

 Same symptoms but it also locks my cdrom drive.
 

From: jaracom@codetel.net.do
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, support@thinserver.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/16026: /stand/sysinstall segmentation fault when invoking 
 Distributions
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 12:08:20 -0400

 Jepp, same symptoms here. Also via "custom install" --> Distribs
 -->Custom.
 Workaround: make a "freebsd" directory, copy the distributions
 directories
 you want to install there. In sysinstall, do "custom install" -->
 distributions, and
 chose one of the "predetermined" kits that should contain what you want
 to install.
 (i.e. "user" or "kernel-developer" or simply "all"). Then select media
 type (filesystem
 and your "freebsd" directory!). Finalise with "commit...". You'll get
 some error messages for distribs it wont find, but it WILL install those
 you copied!
 
 Sunny greetings from Dominican Republic! /Gunnar
 
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: asmodai 
State-Changed-When: Sun Apr 30 08:49:27 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
See my mail on the subject. 

From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
To: support@thinserver.net
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/16026: /stand/sysinstall segmentation fault when invoking Distributions
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 17:49:22 +0200

 First, read this:
 
 http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.4R/errata.html
 
 Then realise that sysinstall is the same code as what goes on the
 install disks, so that code is broken, but fixed in STABLE.
 
 Which effectively means to cvsup to 3-STABLE, make world, and then cd
 /usr/src/release/sysinstall
 
 make obj
 make depend
 make
 make install
 
 And you can use /stand/sysinstall without problems.
 
 I'll set the PR to feedback, since this should fix all you reported.
 
 -- 
 Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai    asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org]
 Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best  
 The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>
 Who looks under the surface does so at his own risk...
 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: hoek 
State-Changed-When: Tue May 16 09:21:59 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Presumably fixed as stated in ERRATA by asmodai 
>Unformatted:
