> Yesterday I upgraded my DEC Multia to RedHat 6.0 + current patches (kernel
> 2.2.5-22)
>
> Now I see data corruption with pings, and at the same time syslog entries
> about unaligned traps (but otherwise the machine does appear to be working
> normally - e.g. I can log into it with ssh). Examples attached below.
>
> Even more strangely, if I try to strace the ping, it dumps core.
>
> Is this a well-known problem? Would upgrading to a later kernel version fix
> it? Or is this a bug in 'ping' in netkit-base-0.10-29 ?
I think this was discussed at length on axp-list. You might try searching
the archives for "ping":
http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/axp-list/
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-alpha%40vger.rutgers.edu/
Mike
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