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From: sgutfreund@gte.com
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Subject: 4.1 strangenes
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Date: 7 Oct 90 21:30:00 GMT
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I have had 3 failures in bringing up 4.1 on my sparc 4/60C GX.

* The install completes fine, but  when I bring up the new kernel
   small_generic I get on an intermittent basis:

instructions traps from rc, man aborts, more gets illegal instructions,
fsck finds all sorts of things wrong (dup files entries, etc), occational
kernal crashes. I also can not configure my own kernel because I get all
sorts of cc errors (sometimes one error, sometimes others). Like I said,
all this is ittermittent. Sometimes rc, man, and more work fine.  I
suspect all programs occasinonally fail (userdiag, etc)

What I have checked:

Memory has been checked extensively (I use 4mb clearpoint) swapped cpu
boards.  I went back to 4.0.3 for one month (heavy use) NO ERRORS of any
sort. 

I do not have any bizzare peripherals (a Crannel scsi box with 2 hp9754s)
is all that is on the scsi bus.

I have tried twice with one distribution tape, and once with another.  so
it does not appear to be a bad tape.

The finger seems to point to some sort of problem in the 4.1 kernel, but
why my machine????

Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund		 		  sgutfreund@gte.com
GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA			    harvard!bunny!sgutfreund