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From: Duncan Barclay <Duncan.Barclay@pa-consulting.com>
To: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Strange things on 2.1R (gunzip broken)
Date: Thu, 23 May 96 09:14:00 PDT
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Last night I tried to uncompress something from the 2.1R ports/distfiles
directory. Gunzip stopped with a crc error message after (subjectivly) short 
while.
It used to work. I then tried copying a number of files off the cdrom and 
uncompressing
from the disk drive. Same error. Then tried /stand/gunzip (a vote for by the 
way) but discovered
it was compressed!!!! But that didnt uncompress either using 
/usr/bin/gunzip. So off to the
live fileing system cdrom and used gunzip from there, which worked. Did a 
diff and
_all_ of /usr/bin and /livefilesystem/usr/bin are different!!!!

Recent changes (like Tuesday) to the machine are the addition of an 
Etherlink III card.
The problem manifests itself with the following kernels:
   kernel + ep0 driver
   kernel + ep0 driver, disabled
   kernel without ep0 driver.
   kernel=stripped down kernel, with drivers for a basic machine (ie. 
sio[01]. lpt0.
   sc0, wdc[01], fd0, ft0, npx0) Hey Jordan this might be a useful addition 
to the conf directory
   for people with a basic machine and dont need the hassle of cutting the 
cruft out of GENERIC.

Machine
  486DX33 on a ISA/VESA motherboard. 2*IDE Drives and an ATAPI CDROM
  Everything worked fine before.

Help.

Things to do after work are extract a virgin copy of usr/bin from the 
distribution cdrom and diff
it all. Try the generic kernel. Remove the EtherLInk III. Worry about data 
and do a backup.

Thanks for any pointers.

Duncan