From owner-freebsd-alpha  Tue Apr 10 13:17:55 2001
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I was doung a tar -xvf ports.tgz

after a while the kernel crashes wit this message:
/kernel: unexpected machine check:
/kernel: panic: machine check

then it dumps a few registers and the pid and name of the program
comm=tar

anyone have some idea what it could be due ??
thanks

Rick



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