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Subject: HELP!! System core dumps on everything!!
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 16:44:11 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi there:

I'm in a world of hurt right now.  I lost a disk last night that had
the /usr directory mounted on it.  After replacing the disk and 
attempting to ftp the bin distribution, since I couldn't boot the system
with no /usr files available.

There are some file systems that say they are not BSD file systems
and I can't edit them using disklabel since vi core dumps.  In fact
everything core dumps.  Also when I went through the download of the
'bin' distribution, when it attempted to chgrp and chown on the files,
it gave me a floating point error, then core dumped on every file.

The disk I lost was a SCSI.  I replaced it with an EIDE drive, which
is not the root system drive.  I don't know if that's causing my problem
or what.  I'm not sure what to do next or how to resolve this.

What could be causing the everything to core dump??

Don't send to the list since this account is NOT on the questions 
mailing list.  

Thanks for any help anyone can give as I'm in dire straits right
now.

Mark