Segfaults on kickstart

[Philip Rowlands]

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Kai Blin wrote:

>> How does it die? Can you use the bash session on VT2?
>
>No, after it segfaults, the system goes down.

More details needed.... Please explain "segfault" - is that a genuine
"signal 11" error? What does the error message say?

>I can't access the bash
>session. Looking at the log in VT3, the last thing it says is:
>
>[snip]
>* doing kickstart... setting it up
>* url is : <path to kickstart file>
>* file location: <nfs URI to kickstart file>

OK, so you can't get to the VT2 bash because it hasn't loaded the
second-stage anaconda image.

>After that it's dead.

How dead? (Locked up and unpingable dead? Can't even make NumLock LED
light up on the keyboard dead?)


Cheers,
Phil