hi,

this sounds like a sparc pmap problem, probably the same one that causes
random coredumps under load.  I'll take a look at it in the next couple days.

-Chuck


On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:27:24PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After recent announcement of switching to NEW_PIPE on sparc
> architecture (and some other platforms) I tried this option with a
> complete -current system on my IPX. Result:
> 
> A simple 'tar xvzf base.tgz' yields a lot of 'Skipping to next file
> header...' (== fails).
> 
> Removing the NEW_PIPE option from my kernel config and rebuilding the
> kernel not changed otherwise solves this problem. -> Seems to be a
> sparc specific NEW_PIPE problem (I don't see it on i386, powerpc,
> alpha).
> 
> How/whom to report it?
> 
> Markus.