Re: port-mips/49903: Panic during installation on WorkPad Z50 (hpcmips) whilst uncompressing base.tgz

[Sevan Janiyan <sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-mips/49903; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sevan Janiyan <sevan%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: port-mips/49903: Panic during installation on WorkPad Z50
 (hpcmips) whilst uncompressing base.tgz
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:32:34 +0100

 On 15/05/2015 11:55, David Brownlee wrote:
 >  On 15 May 2015 at 10:58, Sevan Janiyan <sevan%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
 >  > On 14/05/2015 13:06, David Brownlee wrote:
 >  >> Though the swap is set to kick in at less than 32M of memory. I would
 >  >> think we could extend that to less than 64M if it helps this case...
 >  >
 >  > As I have a swap partition allocated on the CF card, I thought I'd try
 >  > to active it before starting with the manual uncompression of base.tgz.
 >  > I couldn't find a copy of swapon, is the swap activated by some other
 >  > means or is it just not included in the hpcmips minirootfs?
 >  
 >  Look for swapctl (which is the more general purpose cousin for
 >  swapon). Installer space being limited you only get the one :)
 >  
 >  I strongly suspect there is an underlying kernel or toolchain bug
 >  here, rather than out of memory, but its definitely worth a quick
 >  check
 
 
 I bumped the value compared against from running get_ramsize() to 64 &
 rolled a new release. I took the generic kernel * miniroot.fs from this
 & attempted to install 7.0-RC1 again. Same thing, panic on extracting
 the base set.
 http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/usr.sbin/sysinst/disks.c?r=1.9#1203
 
 
 Sevan