On Feb 26, 2005, at 7:29 PM, John Klos wrote:

>> 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.

Point taken.

>> 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.

I can not do this right now, is a production system. I will be replaced 
by newer hardware soon, and then I might give it a try.

/Daniel