Re: Unable to set root's password during install of FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-i386-20130601-r251213-release.iso

On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 09:49+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 08:55+0200, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm unable to get past the rootpass step using the 
> > FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-i386-20130601-r251213-release.iso snapshot.
> > 
> > The error message:
> > 
> > passwd: pam_chauthtok(): error in service module
> > 
> > is briefly shown, leaving behind a core file named /pwd_mkdb.core. 
> > 
> > pwd_mkdb does not contain any debugging symbols and this makes it a 
> > bit hard to guess what went wrong. Anyway, here's the backtrace as 
> > provided by gdb:
> > 
> > Script started on Mon Jun  3 06:50:44 2013
> > command: gdb /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /pwd_mkdb.core
> > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
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> > This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)...
> > Core was generated by `pwd_mkdb'.
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > #1  0x0804acf2 in __pw_scan ()
> > #2  0x0804976a in __pw_scan ()
> > #3  0x08048e6a in ?? ()
> > #4  0x00000007 in ?? ()
> > #5  0xbfbfdd18 in ?? ()
> > #6  0xbfbfdd38 in ?? ()
> > #7  0xbfbfdd38 in ?? ()
> > #8  0xbfbfdd14 in ?? ()
> > #9  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> > (gdb) q
> > 
> > Script done on Mon Jun  3 06:50:49 2013
> > 
> > Has anyone else tried recently to change user passwords on -CURRENT?
> 
> FYI: The FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-amd64-20130601-r251213-release.iso 
> snapshot does not exhibit the above behaviour. Maybe this issue is 
> specific to the i386 arch.

Nope. I was dead wrong again. It seems there's an issue with the 
physical memory of my desktop computer at work.

I tried at home the 10.0-CURRENT 20130601 r251213 snapshot for both 
i386 and amd64, and everything went smoothly. Two VirtualBox VMs are 
currently running in the background competing over who will first 
finish buildworld + buildkernel for r251390. So far the amd64 VM is 
the fastest of them.

Sorry for the noise, and please keep up the very good work.

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