Re: sysinst coredump on VAX/current (Was: VS3100M76 - current)

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

David Brownlee wrote:

> On 21 May 2014 16:17, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > David Brownlee wrote:
> > >
> > > Picking up on this single point (in a new thread).
> > >
> > > Looks like there is a small bug in curses in NetBSD-current related to
> > > embedded newlines in addstr(). On most platforms its relatively benign,
> > but
> > > on vax it causes a coredump (handy).
> > >
> > > There is a PR filed:
> > > http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=48827
> > >
> > > NetBSD/current has a workaround for the coredump until the bug itself is
> > > fixed, so tomorrow's -current build should have a working sysinst. This
> > > specific issue does not appear in any release or on the netbsd-6 branch,
> > > just in current
> >
> > THX David but I dont think that this is related to my problems since
> > -current isn't crashing in sysinst only, the newfs and tar have problems
> > also.
> >
> 
> >From what I gathered newfs and tar were crashing in different places while
> sysinst always failed at the same place? I think the change I reference
> above will probably fix that specific crash you are seeing in sysinst,
> though it should not help any of the other issues.
> 
> I'm just uploaded a test iso I built to
> http://sync.absd.org/vax/timing-images/NetBSD-6.99.41-vax.iso - it will be
> 124051456 bytes when complete and should be there within the hour. If you
> have time would you be willing to test boot it on any of your vaxen which
> showed the sysinst crash and see if you can get past that stage (you do not
> need to install onto the disk, its just to check this one specific issue).
> 
> Thanks

Ok, I'll do that. Currently it has only ~ 93MB...

Regards,

Holm

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