Re: raspberry pi Zero W reboots and kernel panic

[John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost>]

> Just to add more information and to discard a hardware failure as the culprit 
> of the crashes, I flashed into the SD card a previously used copy of Raspian 
> Linux system and worked without any crashes during 2 days uncompressing 
> pkgsrc tree and also doing a CVS checkout of the sources several times.

It might be worth considering the possibility that wireless drivers are 
just not that great for the Raspberry Pis, both in NetBSD and in certain 
Linux distros.

I decided a long time ago to not even try to use wifi on Raspberry Pis 
with NetBSD. Even with Debian, I can reliably lock up a Pi 3B+ by trying 
to transfer lots of data over wifi.

Perhaps you might try USB-ethernet, just to see? My Pi Zeros all run for 
months on end, compiling, transferring lots of data, et cetera, but over 
ethernet, not wifi.

Just a thought :)

John