Oliver Fromme wrote:
walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
  >  I'm now running RELENG_7 on three x86 machines, but (only) one of
  >  them is behaving badly during bootup.
  >
  >  Once the rc.d scripts start to run, I see /bin/sh crashing dozens of
  >  times before I finally see the login prompt.  A few of the normal
  >  processes actually start okay, like ppp and named (this is my home
  >  firewall), but many normal daemons like syslogd and sendmail are
  >  not running.

Last time I had symptoms like that, it turned out to
be bad RAM.

I suspected the same, so I ran memtest86 overnight with no errors.
I compiled sh with debugging symbols -- and it won't crash so I
still can't get a backtrace.  Very frustrating.  But at least I
have a working sh :o)

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