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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:19:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Riccardo Veraldi <Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tar makes the kernel crash
Message-ID:  <15059.27338.671638.750689@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.30.0104102213070.10792-100000@nikita.fi.infn.it>
References:  <Pine.NEB.4.30.0104102213070.10792-100000@nikita.fi.infn.it>

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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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