On 27 Jun 2000 15:20:00 -0500, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 10:30:21PM +0000, Kent Polk wrote:
>> [...]
>> nicely as a backup before I moved it to the 'new' box. Any suggestions
>> on what to investigate (before investing in a new drive)?
>
>Cables ?

Don't think so. I got the same errors with three different cables
and three different IDE controllers. I did discover that /bin/ls/
was corrupted which explains the coredumps.  The ls corruption
apparently occurred after I reloaded bios defaults last week when
I was attempting to determine the cause of the pagefaults (ls quit
working immediately after the reload).

Since replacing ls (two days ago) I haven't seen any more pagefaults.
The system was pagefaulting before ls got corrupted, so maybe in
all of the changes, something I did fixed the original pagefault
problem. I suspect that either resetting NVRAM or moving the IDE
cables all around may have fixed it. (why might a corrupt ls
sometimes cause a pagefault?)

Probably ought to reload the system binaries now...

Thanks