Installing Hurd: dselect causes panic

[Greg Buchholz]

I'm installing the Hurd (J2 iso set) for the first
time and everything was going smoothly until I wanted
to start installing packages with "dselect".  When I
select "cdrom" as the install media, I get a message
like...

/dev/fd5: line222: 59 Segmentation fault  mount >$tp.m

...and dselect recovers rather gracefully and allows
me to try again.  If I select "cdrom" a few more
times, I can get a message like...

panic: zalloc: zone ipc ports exhausted

-or-

panic: zalloc: zone threads exhausted

...and then my machine gets rebooted.  It seems fairly
consistant and repeatable (I've done it 4 times so
far), but it can happen the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th time I
try to select the cdrom.  I'll include my machine
configuration below.  Oh, and I don't seem to get any
core files from the segfault.


Hope this is of use to someone,

Greg Buchholz


My Hardware:
-AMD Athlon XP 1600+
-512 MB RAM (was 1GB, had to take out half in order to
boot)
-Award Bios V6.00PG ver ABA45
-FIC AD-11 motherboard
-AMD 760 chipset
-Matrox G200 graphics card
-D-Link DFE-530TX network card
-D-Link OHCI ieee1394 card
-Philips 8x IDE CD-RW
-Acer 36x IDE CDROM
-Seagate 6.5GB IDE drive
-Seagate 40GB IDE drive (Hurd installed on hd1s5)
 


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