On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:43:25PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I've been able to reproduce this problem on two different machines (a
| IBM laptop and a p3 desktop), also, some other people have reported this
| on IRC. The problem is as follows. During the tarball install, sysinst
| segfaults, causing the install to abort. The workaround I've done so far
| is as follows:
|
| 1) Reboot
| 2) You reboot and drop to single user, since rc_confugred is not set
| 3) mount /usr if necessary
| 4) mount -u /
| 5) for i in /usr/INSTALL/*.tgz; do tar xzpvf $i;done
| 6) use sed to change rc_configured to YES
| 7) reboot
| 8) now you have a usable system, use vi to setup ifconfig.ifname and
| friends
|
| Question: has any other people found this problem? I think I still have
| the core files somewhere, could we try to find where the problem lies?
| Both boxes installed 1.5.3 flawlessly.

Same problem here, sysinst segfaults during the extraction of the
various tarballs. This is a Dell Latitude C600 laptop (see attached
dmesg)

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

dmesg :
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NetBSD 1.6 (INSTALL) #0: Sun Sep  8 20:12:17 UTC 2002
    autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL
cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) (686-class), 701.62 MHz
cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32b/line 2-way
cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 32b/line 8-way
cpu0: features 383f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR>
cpu0: features 383f9ff<PGE,MCA,CMOV,FGPAT,PSE36,MMX>
cpu0: features 383f9ff<FXSR,SSE>
total memory = 511 MB
avail memory = 468 MB
using 6144 buffers containing 26288 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xffe90
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7190 (rev. 0x03)
agp at pchb0 not configured
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7191 (rev. 0x03)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0: vendor 0x1002 product 0x4c46 (rev. 0x02)
wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
vendor 0x104c product 0xac51 (CardBus bridge) at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not configured
vendor 0x104c product 0xac51 (CardBus bridge) at pci0 dev 3 function 1 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7110 (rev. 0x02)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 7 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4) (rev. 0x01)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <IBM-DJSA-210>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
wd0: 9590 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 19640880 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66)
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 1: 2 targets
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, , 1A15> type 5 cdrom removable
cd0: 32-bit data port
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2
pciide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15
cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
uhci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 2: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7112 (rev. 0x01)
uhci0: interrupting at irq 11
usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7113 (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x03) at pci0 dev 7 function 3 not configured
vendor 0x125d product 0x1998 (audio multimedia, revision 0x10) at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured
ex0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: 3Com 3c556 MiniPCI 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x10)
ex0: interrupting at irq 11
ex0: MAC address 00:01:03:83:a3:01
tqphy0 at ex0 phy 0: 78Q2120 10/100 media interface, rev. 11
tqphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
vendor 0x10b7 product 0x1007 (miscellaneous communications, revision 0x10) at pci0 dev 16 function 1 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
pcic0 at isa0 port 0x3e0-0x3e1 iomem 0xd0000-0xdffff irq 
pcic0: controller 0 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has sockets A and B
pcic0: controller 1 (Intel 82365SL Revision 1) has no sockets
pcmcia0 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 0
pcmcia1 at pcic0 controller 0 socket 1
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask ffe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
pcic0: controller 0 detecting irqs with mask 0xde18:..9..10
pcic0: using irq 9 for socket events
md0: internal 2048 KB image area
boot device: <unknown>
root on md0a dumps on md0b
root file system type: ffs
warning: no /dev/console

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