> I suspect, there's something else that is wrong with your machine. Might very 
> well be broken RAM or the like. I've seens random core dumps once I had bad 
> RAM -- in fact the RAM was good, but it was not seated correctly.

That's highly unlikely - it was up for 6 months straight and served more 
than 5 terabytes of traffic over that time, and none of the regular 
daemons died at any time. It also did several bulk package builds over 
that time with no problems. Also, I rebuilt the whole source tree twice 
when testing this, and had the exact same problem both times.

> Anyhow I have a 604ev based machine (ANS 700) that has been running a 1.6.2 
> kernel since april 2004:
>
>    NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE (ANS700MLX-$Revision: 1.6 $) #2: Thu Apr 22 14:43:20 
> UTC 2004
>    total memory = 416 MB
>    avail memory = 376 MB
>    using 2048 buffers containing 21400 KB of memory
>    mainbus0 (root)
>    cpu0 at mainbus0: 604ev (Revision 2.2), ID 0 (primary)
>    cpu0: HID0 8090c084<EMCP,DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE,SGE,BHT>
>
> Hope this helps.

Try this - get the latest 1.6.2, run build.sh with -D somewhere other than 
/. Then, try to chroot to whatever you used for -D. See if you can do 
anything without dumping core.

I've just rebuilt everything for the last time, and now I'm copying over 
ld.elf_so from the 603e machine.

Thanks,
John Klos