System V flakey?

[Alan Fargusson]

I have been having trouble with a VAX runing System V. It seems
that randomly some utilities will fail with an invalid instruction
and a core dump. Utilities like the C compiler, ls, and accounting.
This will last for about a minut, then clear up.

This all started after I installed SV from the distribution tape on
a system with an RP07, and an RM03. I had to add the definition for
the RM03 to the gd driver to make it work. Is anyone using gd out there?
I was not using gd on another system that was runing SV and I didn't
see anything like this. The other system used gt for tape, and the
tape drives were flakey on that system. Are gd and gt flakey?

I did have some problems with a bad memory board, but that has been
fixed. In fact errpt(1m) shows that I haven't had any kind of error
since last sunday (well, 3 soft errors on the RP07). I had to rebuild
the root file system after the memory board was fixed, so there
shouldn't be any leftover problems from that.

After using System V for over a year I can sure see why people like BSD.
-- 

Alan Fargusson.

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