>> Finally, >> could you give a more detailed explanation of what crashing GNU Mach >> means: are you brought to ddb, are any errors sent to the console? > > The error is different each time, the crash itself spurious. I am quite > certain that random data in the kernel address space is corrupted. The > symptoms are page faults, assertion failures and hangs in appearingly random > places (schedular, virtual memory handler, etc).
This could be the kernel, however, I am still a bit suspicious of Parted. >> Parted only uses the store interface; nothing terribly special. > > Seems that there is an access pattern that makes GNU Mach run wild. > > I forgot if I mentioned this in my other mail: OSKit Mach doesn't > crash. Ah, well, then I would not doubt that it is Mach. I guess we now have Yet Another Nice Way to Crash GNU Mach. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd