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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:02:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ignore previous problem w/buildworld
Message-ID:  <14101.58021.305498.377970@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <37505.924142617@noop.colo.erols.net>
References:  <37505.924142617@noop.colo.erols.net>

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Gary Palmer writes:
 > 
 > Ignore the previous problem I posted where buildworld was seeing
 > coredumps. Seems that I had a bad kernel build. A new kernel has fixed
 > the problem. Now running on an egcs world & kernel without noticable
 > problems.

You may want to test any backups you've made with an EGCS built dump.

For me, an egcs built dump seems to produce corrupt dumps.  Building the 
same sources with gcc yields a dump which produces usable dumps.  I've 
been unable to figure out why.

Drew

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