freebsd stable - Nov 2005 - Install freeze while or immediately after finish copying the ports-collection

Hi list,

I am sorry to request help again, but now (after getting the system boot 
with the install cd [see other messages]) the install process freezes 
while or immediately after the copying the ports collection to my harddisk.

First i thought i could be my usb keyboard (thought i read something 
like that somewhere else) but even with ps/2 devices the freeze occures.
Using an extern ftp server for installation is not possible since my 
inboard 3com network interface seems to be not supported correctly.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Timm

Timm,

We had a similar problem during our install - the fix was to only 
install the bare minimum to get the system running 6.0, then install 
everything else after rebooting and re-running sysinstall.

Thanks,
Brandon

Timm Florian Gloger wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am sorry to request help again, but now (after getting the system 
> boot with the install cd [see other messages]) the install process 
> freezes while or immediately after the copying the ports collection to 
> my harddisk.
>
> First i thought i could be my usb keyboard (thought i read something 
> like that somewhere else) but even with ps/2 devices the freeze occures.
> Using an extern ftp server for installation is not possible since my 
> inboard 3com network interface seems to be not supported correctly.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Timm
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On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger
wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am sorry to request help again, but now (after getting the system boot 
> with the install cd [see other messages]) the install process freezes 
> while or immediately after the copying the ports collection to my harddisk.
Have you verified the checksum of the ISO image after you downloaded it?

What happens if you don't install ports? (you can always do it later).
> First i thought i could be my usb keyboard (thought i read something 
> like that somewhere else) but even with ps/2 devices the freeze occures.
> Using an extern ftp server for installation is not possible since my 
> inboard 3com network interface seems to be not supported correctly.
> 
> Any ideas?
How do you know that the network card doesn't work? If you go to the
emergency shell (alt-F4, IIRC) and type 'ifconfig', does it show a
network interface with 'media: Ethernet'?

Anyway, ftp install uses the same install program. So unless you have a
suspicion that it's the CD or the atapicd driver that causes the hang
instead of sysinstall, I don't think ftp install will make a difference.

Roland
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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Timm Florian Gloger wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I get some strange freezes with my fresh 6.0 installation.
>
> After booting for a several times now i got 2 more freezes in not
> coherent periods of time after logging in.
>
> It is a complete freeze as far as i can explore, neither any keyboard
> nor mouse input is noticed and keyboard "hangs" also (no
numblock/
> shiftlock switching possible).
>
> I am able to access the fs through the other os so i checked the message
> and other logfiles, but i cannot find any panic or other bad logentries.
Try turning off background fsck by adding this to your rc.conf and
rebooting:

background_fsck="NO"

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Timm Florian Gloger <timm.gloger@gmail.com> writes:
> * On 11/14/2005 10:15 AM  Alex Popa wrote:
> 
> > The solution (as suggested in the Undernet #FreeBSD channel) was to
> > boot
> > with ACPI disabled.  The system works now with no problems (ACPI still
> > disabled).
> >
> 
> I tried that, this evening and the machine runs fine for now.
> Thanks so far.
> But this is not nice. Did the guys from #FreeBSD tell anything if this
> is a known issue on some systems or if there are PRs filed according
> to this?
> Otherwise i think i will file a PR and see if i can get this reproduceable.
Fine, but please read the "using and debugging FreeBSD ACPI" section
of the Handbook first.