Autzoo.192 hacknews utzoo!henry Wed Feb 18 02:39:12 1981 crash cause found The cause of the crashes turns out to be a problem with the bdwrite mod made to the exece code some days ago. The second part of the mod can be bypassed if the function in question takes an abnormal exit, and this can result in stomping random blocks on the swap area. Fixing this will take some thought, and can wait; in the meantime, we are running on a somewhat old version of the sys1.c kernel module.