I'm not sure if this *is* a hardware problem, now. It might be, but it's an
awfully consistent hardware problem, if it is.

Something is badly horked, in any event.

Can someone suggest some diagnostic procedures I might try to pin this down?
I'm exhausted what I can think of.

Thanks.

cc -O2 -Werror -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wpointer-arith -Wno-main -I../../. -I../../../../../../arch -I../../../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM -DDIAGNOSTIC -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL -Di386 -c /usr/src/sys/compat/common/kern_sig_13.c
cc -O2 -Werror -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wpointer-arith -Wno-main -I../../. -I../../../../../../arch -I../../../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM -DDIAGNOSTIC -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL -Di386 -c /usr/src/sys/compat/common/kern_ipc_10.c
building standard compat library
ranlib libcompat.a
making sure the kern library is up to date...
Bus error - core dumped
*** Error code 138

Stop.

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