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To: Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it>
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Subject: Re: tar makes the kernel crash
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Riccardo Veraldi writes:
 > 
 > 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

Typically, an unexpected machine check implies bad hardware.

Drew

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