On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Greg Oster wrote:

> sendmail, cron, atrun, and syslogd have all core-dumped on me as well.  This 
> "core-dump" behavior has only started (for me) since I got the new/improved 
> kernel with the DMA fixed (which is still working very well).  I don't recall 
> seeing this problem before the new kernel.... 

This problem does exist in the 1.1 kernel; I'm running straight
1.1 on my 3/60 and I got bitten by the bug twice in the week since
I got this machine up. I'm not clear on the details of the first
one, but the second one was a classic case; anything linked against
a shared library would core dump. My system had been up for about
two days at that time.

I managed to get a couple of programs that I'd compiled (and thus
had namelists) to dump, but my backtrace was only:

#0  0x2072046 in end ()
#1  0xc5 in ?? ()

which I didn't find very helpful. I gather Gordon has gotten a ways
past this this point in the debugging, anyway.

I'll think about what I can do to track this down, but, not being
a kernel hacker, don't wait for me to appear with the fix. :-)

cjs

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