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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 17:45:08 GMT
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Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Todd Suess wrote:
> > 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....

> Hmmm.  I've tried like heck to reproduce this and it works just fine
> each time.  I'm kinda puzzled here. :(

Well, if there is anything I can send you, a core dump, etc that might help figure this
out please let me know..  I am glad to know I am not the only one having this problem,
however, I was beginning to think I was losing my mind..   :)

Todd