According to Greg Troxel:
>
>I have a sparc ELC running NetBSD 1.5_BETA2.  I have a slight
>suspicion that the hardware is not 100% ok (POST failure with no
>explanation, occasional cc core dumps when compiling really huge
>files), but I have built cvs, emacs, perl, kth-krb4, arla etc. and am
>running X, so it is at least 99.999% ok

Normally, that means you have a memory error.  Some memory errors can
be subtle and cause behaviour not unlike what you are seeing.

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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS
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