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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:49:48 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Cc:        karl@Mcs.Net, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Crashes (page faults) and odd behavior on current
Message-ID:  <199610290819.SAA12179@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199610290554.VAA29224@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Oct 28, 96 09:54:44 pm

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Justin T. Gibbs stands accused of saying:
> 
> I also started seeing this stuff sometime this weekend.  My symptom is
> tar complaing about a corrupted file when untaring something large (say
> 11MB).  Unmount/Remount the fs, and the tar extracts just fine.
> I was going to play around with my RAM to see if it was the culpret, but
> this second report makes it look like a software bug.

On a kernel from around the 21st or so, we had the 'dead binary stays dead'
problem last night, followed by a lockup of some sort.  (Couldn't tell, as
the machine was running X 8( )

Naturally, I'm upgrading again.

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