Subject: Re: Colonel Crash reporting for duty, General!
To: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Frank Kardel <kardel@Acrys.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 03/20/2002 23:10:24
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:18:35PM -0800, Greywolf wrote:
> 1.  Update source tree (18 March 2002, 2:14).
> 2.  Rebuild tools.
> 3.  Configure kernel, 1.5ZC GENERIC, for a sanity check.
> 4.  Reboot
> 5.  Kernel crashes while running the wsfont stuff.  I had thought it was
> 	dying trying to install network interface aliases, since that
> 	was the last userland line printed.
> 
> I got:
> 
> db> stopped at wsloadfont(addresses escape me at the moment) -> e
> 	movl (something), eal
> 	movl (something), eah
> 
> or something like that; I'll have to take a look at it again later
> tonight.  Is anyone else suffering such issues?
I had something similar. So far it seems, that font-loading 
via /etc/wscons.conf messes up the kernel data structures.
Using a distribution wscons.conf made the system come up.

-- 
  Frank