mjr318@psu.edu  wrote:
 > > > 	As a final hardware test you could try cpuburn (sysutils/cpuburn).
 > > > 	I've found burnMMX very helpful in showing up cpu/memory issues.
 > > 
 > I've also experienced this segfault issue installing both 1.6 and current into a VMWare virtual machine.  It seems to be occurring on man.tgz for me.  However 1.5.3 will still install without a problem.
 > 
 > This is very concerning, since I *hope* my virtual machine doesn't have faulty virtual hardware :)


Have you tried re-seating your virtual memory?