Jason E. Luther wrote:
> I just installed netbsd 1.3 on a IIci, and i've been recompiling some
> things for it. While compiling ssh-1.2.22, the compiler dumped core at
> different places throughout the make process, and after just remaking it
> several times, i ended up with working ssh binaries. The same thing
> happened with ircii and gmake. Other programs (like find and grep) are
> dumping core randomly - the command line that causes a crash works fine
> 9/10 times.
> 
> Is this a hardware problem? Unfortunately, I don't know what to do with a
> core file to see what caused the crash, but because none of the errors are
> reproducible, i don't think it is a software problem.
> 
> if it's relevant, this was a new 1.3 install over an existing (but rm /'d)
> 1.2.1 install. the IIci has two asante ethernet cards, a 200MB maxtor hard
> drive, and 32MB of ram. i tried reseating the ram, but the problem
> persists.
> 
> any ideas?

What SCSI driver are you using?  The ncrscsi or sbc?  Try the other one.
I seem to remember having this kind of problem due to SCSI errors.  You
might want to run a forced fsck in single-user mode to make sure that
nothing in your filesystem is damage, btw.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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