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

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

David Brownlee wrote:

> On 25 May 2014 09:07, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > David Brownlee wrote:
> >
> > > On 22 May 2014 08:35, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > > David Brownlee wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > OK, so we can tick the sysinst coredump off the list. Small steps :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Will follow up other issues on other thread.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Hmm... not really reproduceable. That is a moving target it seems.
> > > >
> > > > I've tried the next disk:
> > > >
> > > > >>> sh dev
> > > >  VMS/VMB  ULTRIX    ADDR    DEVTYP  NUMBYTES  RM/FX  WP  DEVNAM  REV
> > > >  -------  ------  --------  ------  --------  -----  --  ------  ---
> > > >  ESA0     SE0     08-00-2B-23-C2-5A
> > > >
> > > >  DKA0     RZ0     A/0/0/00  DISK     1.00 GB   FX        0663   s
> > > >  DKA300   RZ3     A/3/0/00  DISK     2.11 GB   FX        FIREBAL300X
> > > >  DKA500   RZ5     A/5/0/00  RODISK    124 MB   RM        CD-ROM 0167
> > > >  ...HostID....    A/6       INITR
> > > >
> > > >  ...HostID....    B/6       INITR
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ..some Quantum Fireball..
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > and got this:
> > > >
> > > > You can now change the sizes for the system partitions.  The default
> > is to
> > > >  allocate all the space to the root file system, however you may wish
> > to
> > > > have
> > > >  separate /usr (additional system files), /var (log files etc) or /home
> > > >  (users' home directories).
> > > >
> > > >  Free space will be added to the partition marked with a '+'.
> > > >
> > > >         MB         Cylinders   Sectors   Filesystem
> > > >         64    (64)       218    131672 + /
> > > >        128               435    262740   swap
> > > >        128               435    262740   /tmp (mfs)
> > > >        400              1357    819628   /usr
> > > >         64               218    131672   /var
> > > >       1356              4601   2779004   /home
> > > >     Add a user defined partition
> > > >     Change input units (sectors/cylinders/MB)
> > > >    uid 0, pid 6, command sysinst, on /: file system fulltitions.
> > > >
> > > > /: write failed, filepid 6 (sysinst): user write of 115108@0x7f61f000at
> > > > 193416 failed: 28
> > > >  system is full
> > > > [1]   Segmentation fault      sysinst
> > > > #
> > > > so here is the segfault again :-(
> > > >
> > >
> > > Was that with my test .iso image or an different one?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Yes, that was your image on CD
> >
> 
> Damn - and it fails each time you hit x from that screen?
> 
> If I built a non installer sysinst binary would you be able to run it form
> nfs or similar (so we can get a debuggable coredump)

I can try that, should be possible. The M38 is on the road to martin.

Regards,

Holm

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