>
> I was having similar problems when installing on a new system. Some
> programs just dumped core, after reboot ather progs dumped, other where
> missing and so on. rpm -Va told me that lots of files had wrong MD5
> sums. I posted to this list but there was just one reply about bad
> hardware. Well, it was NOT cheap hardware, DELL Precision WS with i820
> Camino Chipset, Promise controller... Well it could be bad hardware
> anyway but I felt unsure because I have never had a system wich was
> unreliable and I tried really everything and changed every peace of
> hardware. /var was big enough.
>
> If you are able to run the system and rpm -Va works, try to run rpm -Va
> > file.[#] several times and compare them. Would be interesting to know what
> comes out.
>
> Simon
>
Yes, I vaguely remember this, I apologise for letting you fall through the
cracks, it is difficult to keep track of everything which is going on.
Have you tried running with ext2 on this hardware, but with an xfs kernel
and trying some tests on an xfs partition? It would be nice to establish
what is really going on here.
Steve
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