[7.0] /bin/sh segfaulting during boot

[Eilko Bos]

>From the keyboard of walt, written on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:42:00AM -0700:
> Oliver Fromme wrote:
>> walt<w41ter at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>   >  I'm now running RELENG_7 on three x86 machines, but (only) one of
>>   >  them is behaving badly during bootup.
>>   >
>>   >  Once the rc.d scripts start to run, I see /bin/sh crashing dozens of
>>   >  times before I finally see the login prompt.  A few of the normal
>>   >  processes actually start okay, like ppp and named (this is my home
>>   >  firewall), but many normal daemons like syslogd and sendmail are
>>   >  not running.
>> 
>> Last time I had symptoms like that, it turned out to
>> be bad RAM.

I've also seen this problem when upgrading from 6.3 -> 7.0, booting from half
a mirror. I could not find the exact cause of it, reinstall of 7.0 fixed the
problem.

Grtz,
--
Eilko.