I've had this problem too. Never again happened after I stopped
using mfs for /tmp. Do you use mfs?

Jaromir 

Krister Walfridsson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Greywolf wrote:
> 
> > Hey, all, apologies if this is a known bug, but it's been nailing me
> > for quite some time now.
> >
> > at the "db> " prompt, "sync" immediately returns with
> > kernel data fault ...
> >
> [...]
> > Is this a known bug?
> >
> > Kernel is 1.6K from sources of 17 December 2002, but it's been happening
> > to me for easily 12 months or more, on several different brands of box.
> 
> FWIW, I have seen this problem on the 1.6 release too.
> 
>    /Krister
> 


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