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From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Re: NetBSD finally gives out
Organization: private 386bsd site
References: <2af00e$9kj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Message-ID: <CFMH7C.v0@luva.stgt.sub.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1993 19:37:46 GMT
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In article <2af00e$9kj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>
>
>Sigh.
>
>	After three months of nearly flawless running (only two
>	unexplained crashes in that time), NetBSD finally blew up on
>	me last night.
>
>	I had paused a compile of XFree86, and started to edit a text file
>	with my text editor, while reading news in a cu session in
>	another window (it's remarkable how many things you can do
>	with a windowing system :-)), when all of a sudden, I noticed
>	that no more processes would start, and then....
>
>	Lock-up.
>
>	No choice but to hit rest.  Upon rebotting, 
>
>	panic: init died
>

The first time I rebuilt FreeBSD on my 386bsd-0.1-0.2.4
system using Nate's update script I experienced the same...

The cause: /sbin/init is renamed to /sbin/init.386. Now if
the system crashes, is paused (?) or stopps for some reason
/sbin/init is not found.

Could this help?
Michael.


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Michael Giegerich             | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org
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