newfs seems stuck in loop

[Rhialto <rhialto%falu.nl@localhost>]

I am trying to install a recently updated tree (crosscompiled on amd64)
and chose my "new" 2 GB scsi disk (a HP OEM disk from Seagate). My VAX
is a headless VAXstation 3100 with 32 MB RAM.

When sysinst got to newfs'ing the /home partition, it seemed to do its
work, but then it got into an infinite loop, eating CPU user time.

(all retyped by hand:)

Command: /sbin/newfs -V2 -O 1 -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/rsd0e

/dev/rsd0e: 1306.6MB (2676004 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
using 7 cylinder groups of 186.67MB, 11947 blks, 23552 inodes.
..............................................................................
load: 1.08  cmd: newfs 22 [runnable] 2615.23u 3.61s 99% 876k

The system time doesn't seem to increase.

I interrupted it after the time shown. I hoped it had really done its
work, but fsck could not find the superblock. When I retried the command
from the shell, it printed the same, and 7 numbers followed by commas
(those are the superblock numbers, right?) I didn't test if the comma
after number #7 meant it wanted to print another one, which may explain
the loop?


/dev/rsd0e: 1306.6MB (2676004 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
        using 7 cylinder groups of 186.67MB, 11947 blks, 23552 inodes.
32,
382336,
764640,
1146944,
1529248,
1911552,
22933856,
[ nothing more ]

-Olaf.
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