Brad Spencer writes:

> Hey, I am glad someone else has seen odd behavior with a 3/50 and prom
> version 2.3 [I was *really* beginning to suspect a defective machine].
> I run this Sun diskless and use a NetBSD/i386 box as a fileserver.  I
> know that the Ethernet card on the fileserver is *way* slow, and
> thought that it was perhaps related to swapping over NFS, but I don't
> know for sure.  Basically, I can always make a compile of 'tcsh' drop
> core, usually before it actually gets to compiling anything
> [i.e. which it is generating the various header files, basically a
> couple of 'egrep's and a 'sed' in a single pipeline].  After it starts
> dropping core, *any* binary which uses shared libraries will drop
> core.  Static binaries seem to work better.
> 
> Sometimes it will just start to drop core on boot [important things
> like getty and the like].

I've had the same problems with my netbooted 3/110 with 2.7 prom.

Shawn

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