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From: Todd Suess <root@cracked.inspace.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with Sysinstall in 2.2.2 Date: 13 Jun 1997 16:07:39 GMT Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5nrr8b$ief@news0-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5nqqh4$3ht@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <33A10099.15FB7483@FreeBSD.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: cracked.inspace.net X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970527; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE] Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.lava.net!news.flex.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!cracked.inspace.net!root Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42996 Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Todd Suess wrote: > > 2.2.2 I have a small problem. The first time sysinstall runs, it works > > super, allowing me to install several programs from the ports > > collection, etc.. However, on subsequent trys running /stand/sysinstall > > the program will fail with a segmentation fault and dump the core (signal > You're not alone - others have reported this problem and it's Damned > Peculiar. It's almost as if the binary is corrupting itself somehow. > This is going to prove interesting to track down, no doubt, and I've no > guarantees as to how long that will take but I just thought I'd let you > know that the problem is known and is being investigated. > Thanks. > P.S. If you have /usr/src/release on your system, one work-around is to > go to /usr/src/release/sysinstall, do a make and then copy the resulting > binary to /stand. You'll toast all the utilities which are linked to it > there, but at least sysinstall will work again. :) > -- > - Jordan Hubbard > FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM. Thanks for the Tip, Jordan, however, I followed your suggestion, and even with a new binary of sysinstall (which is, BTW much smaller than the original sysinstall (~360k> vs. (~1.6M>, and it still gets the same segmentation fault.. :( Only thing I can think of is to reinstall and before running sysinstall make a backup of the binary and then trying to recopy it back into /stand once it fails, but I really don't want to reinstall the whole system again.... Todd