On Dec 5, 10:36pm, Jason Godfrey wrote:
>I have had frequent trouble with getting segmentation faults when running 
>NetBSD on a Performa 630. This was supposedly due to a bug in the FPU 
>emulator. Well, I installed the libm-nomc68881 libraries to hopefully get 
>rid of this problem (it worked for Steve Allen on a C610.)
>
>However, I still get frequent segmentation faults. Did I install it wrong 
>(putting the stuff in /usr/lib, replacing what was already there) or is 
>there something else going on here? 

No, I also get a fair number of faults (signals 4, 10 and 11).  I managed
to compile a kernel last night (in a fraction of the time my Mac II takes :)
and it booted multi-user, but I had several dozen faults while building it,
and I suspect the integrity of that kernel.  I just don't get *as many*
faults with the nomc68881 libm as with the standard one.

~Steve

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