Occasional crash reports

[Takashi Oe]

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:

> > 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.

> 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.


Takashi Oe


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