I just installed the kernel and base packages on a Performa 550. I have
rebooted several times and done further installations, including several
ppp-related packages found amongst the NetBSD web pages.

Aside from a few hangs during boots, the my initial log-ins were
uneventful, i.e., no baffling errors.

This morning, however, when logged in as "root" (and previously in
single-user), typing "ls -al" at the command line gave me the error
"illegal instrution: core dumped".

I suspect this shouldn't be happening; can anyone assist me, please?


Jeffrey Ohlmann