Re: install/56582: port-atari freeze on installation when extracting base.tgz

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-atari/56582; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/56582: port-atari freeze on installation when extracting
 base.tgz
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:22:48 +0000

 Not sent to gnats. (Will shift to the correct position in the
 discussion in the database.)
 
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 From: David Ross <randomdross00%gmail.com@localhost>
 To: port-atari-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 Subject: Re: install/56582: port-atari freeze on installation when extracting
 	base.tgz
 Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:20:25 -0800
 
 I was able to complete a NetBSD 9.2 install by booting with an 8.2
 kernel.  However, on first boot I get:
 Dec 29 10:56:44 tt030 ntpd[373]: mlockall(): Cannot allocate memory
 ...and a few postfix related errors.  You can see it all in this
 Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/nbtt030/status/1476355335493324802
  The system does ultimately come up, though I'm not sure yet if it
 runs stable.
 
 So this tells me the install problem is not simply a matter of running
 out of memory during the initial boot / sysinst process.  The ntpd
 issue happens on normal boot with the 9.2 kernel, so the system will
 have access to swap.  So it seems there may be a memory related
 problem that crept into the kernel between 8.2 and 9.0.
 
 This is not something I've observed previously -- NetBSD 8.2 runs fine
 on this machine.
 
 Dave