If it's of any interest: I have such a core file lying around from
when I was installing 1.6.1.

I didn't care about it back then because from searching the mailing
lists I got the impression that it was a known problem.

So if anyone's interested I could provide the file, but I don't think
I can offer much help beyond that, because the installation was too
long ago to reproduce the exact steps (and I have no intention to
reinstall this machine now...).

Tom



Jukka Salmi wrote:
> David Laight --> netbsd-help (2003-07-26 18:51:20 +0100):
> 
>>This has been seen before.
>>Do you actually get a core file? If so it might just contain something
>>useful, if not it all gets hard :-(
>>Do you know which process dumps core?
>>It could be part of sysinst (there are a couple of children lurking).
>>
>>I have a gut feeling there is a heap problem - so it could be tricky!
> 
> 
> I remember there was a dump /mnt/sysinst.core, but I didn't save it and
> reinstalled the OS. And now I can't reproduce the problem anymore...
> (perhaps because I changed the harddisk? Don't know...) Strange.
> 
> Jukka