misc/118796: sysinstall signal 11

[Remko Lodder]

The following reply was made to PR bin/118796; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Remko Lodder" <remko at elvandar.org>
To: "David Pilcher" <david.pilcher at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/118796: sysinstall signal 11
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:32:26 +0100 (CET)

 On Mon, December 17, 2007 10:54 pm, David Pilcher wrote:
 >
 > When running sysinstall, I get a core dump when attempting to install
 > additional packages.
 >>How-To-Repeat:
 > Installed basic system with no packages.
 >
 > Internet works - can ftp places.
 >
 > Run sysinstall and select Configure/Packages.  Select FTP/Main Site/Assume
 > Network is configured.
 >
 > sysintall core dumps when saying 'Located INDEX, now reading package data
 > from it...'
 >
 > syslog:
 >
 > kernel: pid 1057 (sysinstall), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
 >
 > sysinstall.core exists.
 >
 >
 > I wonder if this is because FreeBSD is running under VMWare 6.  Are there
 > known incompatibilities?
 
 There are no packages available for -B4 yet, we dont do them for
 intermediate releases (or actually "test platforms"), so it is quite
 possible that this is not working indeed.
 
 CAn you provide more information on the sysinstall.core via the
 information on
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
 
 Thanks
 remko
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