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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!delos!luva!migieger 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 Lines: 37 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. -- ------------------------------+------------------------------ Michael Giegerich | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org ------------------------------+------------------------------