At 2:40 PM -0800 2/15/98, Colin Wood wrote:

>What SCSI driver are you using?  The ncrscsi or sbc?  Try the other one.
>I seem to remember having this kind of problem due to SCSI errors.  You
>might want to run a forced fsck in single-user mode to make sure that
>nothing in your filesystem is damage, btw.

using the sbc kernel seems to have fixed things. thanks!

>Jason E. Luther wrote:
>> I just installed netbsd 1.3 on a IIci, and i've been recompiling some
>> things for it. While compiling ssh-1.2.22, the compiler dumped core at
>> different places throughout the make process, and after just remaking it
>> several times, i ended up with working ssh binaries. The same thing
>> happened with ircii and gmake. Other programs (like find and grep) are
>> dumping core randomly - the command line that causes a crash works fine
>> 9/10 times.
>>
>> Is this a hardware problem? Unfortunately, I don't know what to do with a
>> core file to see what caused the crash, but because none of the errors are
>> reproducible, i don't think it is a software problem.
>>
>> if it's relevant, this was a new 1.3 install over an existing (but rm /'d)
>> 1.2.1 install. the IIci has two asante ethernet cards, a 200MB maxtor hard
>> drive, and 32MB of ram. i tried reseating the ram, but the problem
>> persists.
>>
>> any ideas?