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Hi,
   I've been trying to build myself a kernel for a while now, but I'm getting
a strange problem with any new kernels that I make..  if I make any change to
the directory structure, the entire directory disappears (including . and ..)
and I can't do directory searches anymore in that directory. ~

there are a couple of problems that alerted me to this, one is that the kvm
database can't be built (it makes a /var/db/kvm_netbsd.tmp file then
complains about it being the wrong file type), and savecore says that it 
can't find the dump device (not sure if this one is related)

the funky thing is, that if I refer to files in the 'empty' directory by
name, then they *are* available.  changing the contents of the file doesn't
seem to cause a problem, just changing the directory contents. 

The 1.1 kernel works just fine, as does one I built just after then..  but
I've had this problem since the beginning of January (I didn't have much time
in Jan, so I left the machine running with the kernel I built, and it was
fine all month)

I include my kernel configuration file, and the dmesg output below in the
hope that somebody might be able to suggest something, or at least verify if
it happens on any other ports (a couple of others seem to notice it on the
sparc port). I have tried building a GENERIC kernel, but thats the same.

I'm stuck.  Anybody know where I should look next?  I can't see that its a
hardware problem, the hardware works just fine with older kernels, and I can
reproduce it every time..  does anybody recall making any changes that might
have caused this? 

confusedly,
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