Re: Occasional crash reports

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001, Takashi Oe wrote:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:

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I don't really know, but I can confirm that both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels
are unstable on a beige g3 and a bmac equipped b/w g3.  I can crash them
rather easily with regular programs, given a day or two.

Can you point at which program reliably crashes beige/G3?

It's usually rsync.

hmm.  don't use that as much - but it's consistent with network activity -
does it show up as an illegal instruction?

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that's what I use as my dev/build machine and it seems to be stable (2.4.x)
except under the following circumstance:

If I boot using the BootX application - at which point something drops a
bomb which almost always ends up in the network stack and shows up as an
illegal instruction (usually an FP one).

Ah, yes, we use BootX app here, too.  Version 1.2.2, I think.

try a hard reboot and use the BootX init - that seems to cure the problem
for me.  Finding out what the problem actually is might be more tricky ;-)

I'm on 1.2.2 as well - so that's the same.

ciao,
Iain.

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