4.1 strangenes

[sgutfreund at gte.com]

I have had 3 failures in bringing up 4.1 on my sparc 4/60C GX.

* The install completes fine, but  when I bring up the new kernel
   small_generic I get on an intermittent basis:

instructions traps from rc, man aborts, more gets illegal instructions,
fsck finds all sorts of things wrong (dup files entries, etc), occational
kernal crashes. I also can not configure my own kernel because I get all
sorts of cc errors (sometimes one error, sometimes others). Like I said,
all this is ittermittent. Sometimes rc, man, and more work fine.  I
suspect all programs occasinonally fail (userdiag, etc)

What I have checked:

Memory has been checked extensively (I use 4mb clearpoint) swapped cpu
boards.  I went back to 4.0.3 for one month (heavy use) NO ERRORS of any
sort. 

I do not have any bizzare peripherals (a Crannel scsi box with 2 hp9754s)
is all that is on the scsi bus.

I have tried twice with one distribution tape, and once with another.  so
it does not appear to be a bad tape.

The finger seems to point to some sort of problem in the 4.1 kernel, but
why my machine????

Yechezkal Shimon Gutfreund		 		  sgutfreund at gte.com
GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA			    harvard!bunny!sgutfreund