On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 04:37:15PM +0000, Kent Polk wrote:
> 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?)


Hum, maybe the loaded kernel was corrupted too ?

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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