Subject: Re: Corrupted stuff?
To: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/12/2004 13:37:18
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:27:58PM -0600, Peter Eisch wrote:
> 
> I'm continually getting these on my console (stock 1.6.1 on an ultra5):
> 
> trap: textfault at 416c0580!! sending SIGILL due to trap 16: illegal
> instruction

There was a bug in pmap which had the same appearence. The bug was fixed
after 1.6.1, so I'd suggest to try 1.6.2 or -current. 

> 
> They stream along quite nicely.
> 
> In trying to isolate down what the difference/issue might be, I unpacked the
> install sets into /tmp (mfs) and then proceeded to do a sum and compare the
> file in the sets to what's out on disk.  I get lots of things being
> different. 
> 
> Does the install process or pax do anything funky with the files as they're
> written to disk?  The file sizes are the same, but the checksums differ for
> most/many of the files.  The harddrive was new when I started.
> 
> Should the checksums be the same between the running and sets?
> 

install doesn't change files, they should stay identical. Quite often I
do my upgrade 'cp -Rp' from build to root directory.

	Andrey