Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: eurtrx!euraiv1!!henk@uunet.uu.net (Henk Langeveld) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Help with 4.0 upgrade on Sun 3/260 Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <117@hathi.euraiv1.uucp> Date: 6 May 89 16:51:23 GMT References: Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Erasmus Univ.;EUR/EF/AIV; P.O.B. 1738; NL 3000 DR Rotterdam Lines: 40 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 27 Apr 89 10:33:24 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 273, message 3 of 23 gwl@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Gerry Lawrence) writes: >I've just been (conned) into upgrading to 4.0 on our 3/260. We've got two >Fujitsu 2333's, 8 megs of ram and a 1/4inch tape drive. I can get all the >way through the suninstall forms up until the "Installation" menu item, >which immediately gives: > Bus error: core dumped >Ulch! I've tried different disk partitions, different options, to no >avail. Has anyone had this problem? Yes, we had the same trouble in january. I presume you are using ttya as a console ? (i.e. You haven't got a sun console, keyboard and mouse). This is a documented bug, look in the CDB. The problem is that the TERMCAP definition cannot be set from within suninstall, its buffer for the termcap entry is too small. If you set the TERMCAP variable with the correct value before running suninstall, you should have no problems. (This took us, sun NL, two weeks, plus a hardware engineer for half a day at our site swapping boards, until they realised what was happening). >Tread very carefully when running suninstall. DO NOT TYPE AHEAD at >all. If you are impatient and hit keys before suninstall is ready to read >them, it may core dump. This was our experience when upgrading a 3/280 >with suninstall. This may or may not be the source of your problem, but >it is something to be careful about. --wnl I know nothing of problems with typeahead in suninstall, apart from the stupid program reacting a bit slow. [[ Well, it may have just been us. Hard to tell sometimes, and "suninstall" is not something we use that often (so it's not worth the effort of tracking down problems in it). --wnl ]] Henk Langeveld -- Henk Langeveld ( Dept. EUR/EF/AIV; Erasmus University Rotterdam ) henk@{euraiv1,eurtrx}.uucp || +31 10 4081346 langeveld@hroeur5.bitnet ||