On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:45:09PM +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:

> I've noticed this on my IPC as well. pax would bomb out at random times. I 
> just had to repeat the install process until I got through one without pax 
> crashing.

Did you use the "verbose" option (to display the extracted files)?

I've seen core dumps (of sysinst, though) with this, but never when I did
no use it.

Martin