On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 13:35 -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > > tar _is_ pax: > : corwin; ls -li /bin/tar /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/tar > : corwin; > > Fundamentally, unless a userspace process is poking at devices or > similar, > it should be unable to panic the kernel. An abort trap in the kernel > is > either a kernel bug or a hardware bug. IIRC there's some pmap bug on > macppc that no one has managed to track down which causes crashes on > some > machines, but not others. I've never hit it on the Macbook I use for > builds, but the ports build boxes, whatever model they are, seem to > hit it > periodically... > > > Philip Guenther >
I'm happy to help track down the issue if someone will tell me what to do. I will reload the OS on the machine when I get a chance. How will we be able to determine whether we're dealing with a kernel bug or a hardware failure?
