conf/154788: FreeBSD sysinstall crashes if no network interface found

[Théophile Studer]

>Number:         154788
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD sysinstall crashes if no network interface found
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 15 00:00:20 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Théophile Studer
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
EPFL
>Environment:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE  #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root at mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
FreeBSD 8.1 (even 8.2RC3) sysinstall crashes if it cannot detect or configure a network interface.
Moreover, if sysinstall is run during installation the system if forced to reboot after this crash.

FreeBSD 8.1 or 8.2RC3 see my ethernet card but is unable to correctly configure it.
It shows in dmesg with re0 but doesn't appear in ifconfig.

With this configuration sysinstall crashes.

On FreeBSD 9-CURRENT, my ethernet is still not properly configured as in 8.1, but sysinstall doesn't crash anymore.

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to configure the network using sysintall.
>Fix:


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