Re: Installing on Loongson2f causing sysinst segmentation fault

[manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 5:50 AM Jan Prunk <janprunk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your reply, I am asking because I own 8089 model, do you have 8089 or 8101 ? It's good to know that the installer fails at some point, so I would probably have the same problem during installation. I hope that it will get fixed soon.

I have the 8089B model.  And yes I'd avoid trying to upgrade to 9.x
until it's fixed.

> Like you already mentioned, I think with NetBSD 8.0 this problem wasn't present. I managed to go through install, but then faced some console flooding error, which afaik hasn't been fixed yet. If you can, please report your bug on the NetBSD bug tracker, there are instructions about how to do it by using e-mail.

Sounds good. I'll try to figure out how to set up postfix and submit
to gnats through send-pr.

>
> Kind regards,
> Jan
>
> ---
> Sent from my Android device, please excuse my brevity.
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021, 11:59 manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 2:40 AM Jan Prunk <janprunk%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello manphiz,
>> >
>> > I don't know the solution for your error, but you haven't mentioned the product. Is this a Lemote Yeeloong laptop or a similar one?
>>
>> Yes, it's the Lemote Yeeloong laptop.
>>
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> > Jan
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 5:52 PM manphiz <manphiz%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm trying to install NetBSD onto my Loongson2f netbook and when
>> >> partitioning the disk sysinst will crash due to segmentation fault.
>> >> The exact error message looks like below:
>> >>
>> >> ```
>> >> [ 104.2026388] uid 0, pid 16, command sysinst, on /: file system full
>> >> [ 104.2397136] /: write failed, file system is full
>> >> [ 104.2597050] pid 16 (sysinst): user write of 139472@0x78594000 at
>> >> 730572 failed: 28
>> >> ```
>> >>
>> >> This error showed up whenever I tried to change the partition map and
>> >> mark the NetBSD partition active.  I have previously installed OpenBSD
>> >> on the Loongson2f netbook so I have one ext2 partition of 2G as boot
>> >> drive for the kernels and the rest of the disk (~158G) as OpenBSD file
>> >> system.  I have tried the following:
>> >> * Remove the OpenBSD file system and create a NetBSD fs.
>> >> * Directly change the OpenBSD fs to NetBSD fs.
>> >> * Remove everything and recreate the ext2 fs and NetBSD fs.
>> >> And all attempts ended up in sysinst segfault when trying to mark the
>> >> NetBSD partition active.  There was obviously enough space on my
>> >> disk, so I suspect this file system full error may be referring to the
>> >> installer ramfs?
>> >>
>> >> I've tried both the NetBSD 9.2-release and NetBSD daily snapshot but
>> >> both ended up in this error.  I actually also tried the 8.2 installer
>> >> and interestingly it worked flawlessly!  So I now have a working
>> >> NetBSD system.  I then tried to use the 9.2 installer to perform an
>> >> upgrade, but when trying to download the sets it ended in no disk
>> >> space error (again), which sounds related to the previous issue.
>> >>
>> >> As I don't have a working NetBSD system yet I cannot use sendbug with
>> >> system info, so do let me know if you need any more info.  Any fix or
>> >> workaround are appreciated!
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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