> I have a 3/60 which exhibits this bug where everything using some
> shared-library dumps core.  I've seen it on other machines, but so
> rarely that I could not "home in" on it.  I have greater hopes now!
> 
> Can anyone provide clues as to when this bug does or does not bite?

On my 3/75 (with si controller) it basically happened nearly every
time I brought up a NetBSD kernel with the dma stuff enabled, logged
in as myself, and started X windows (thus causing my .xinitrc file to
be executed, which in turn fired up several shell scripts).  The 
sequence described was 90% likely to cause the coredumps ; booting 
w/o the dma stuff or booting a pre-dma kernel never seemed to 
cause the problem.  (though the non-dma kernel was so slow that
I couldn't stand to go though the same coredump-causing sequence 
more than two or three times.)

It only seemed to happen with executables that used shared libraries.
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