Trish and Siobhan:

This is a known flash regression and it is tracked under bugid 6649854:

6649854 - interactive flash retrieval is broken in snv_79 and it core dumps.

Workaround is to use jumpstart to retrieve the flash archive and it works.

Siobhan P. Lynch wrote:
> Hi,
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> We?re having an install issue on an appliance we?re building.
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> Essentially we get to the point where tell it to install a flash 
> archive, it loads the archive, and we press F2 to continue. The 
> installer then segfaults.
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> This is on Nevada 81(x86) (we need to use crossbow, of course if it 
> works in an earlier or later installer, we can of course install the 
> flash archive and the installer kernel version won?t matter)
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> This happens every time just after the point where it loads the archive 
> off the ?media? (usually NFS, but we?ve tried FTP and HTTP as well), 
> confirms the media, and we press F2 ? boom segfault!
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> We don?t have a core file of course, because this is on a memory file 
> system (I guess I could try and get it for you guys, I?m just wondering 
> if this is a known issue or not.
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> -Trish
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> Siobhan P. 
> Lynch                                                                         
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>                                               trish at reliantsec.net
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> Security 
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