[Trinux-talk] /bin/sh randomly exits ???

[Randy W. <ra...@si...>]

Hello Trinux Experts,

What could be causing my Trinux /bin/sh to exit without
warning?

Event sequence:

1) Boot Trinux net floppy
2) Mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hd1 (reiserfs)
3) Mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd2 (reiserfs)
4) cd /mnt/hd1
5) tar --preserve -xzvf wsinstall-tpl.tgz 2> /tmp/tar.err
6) tar output scrolls up the screen...
7) towards the middle to end of the "untar" before tar finishes I get:
    Please press Enter to activate this console.

Sometimes tar will finish but the shell still gets exited. =20
I get know messages at all nothing in tar.err or anything displayed to
the screen explaining what caused the shell to exit.  /var/log/messages
just tells me "/bin/sh - exited."

Things I have tried:
killed crond
find  / -name core (no core files found)
different boot floppy
different tar file
different hardware
setterm -blank 0, in case the screenblank is flaky???

I am using 0.80rc2 Trinux release:

Any guess, ideas or the answer would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Here is the contents of my server file:
http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/
http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/2.4.5/
http://the.wiretapped.net/security/operating-systems/trinux/pkg/
http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/pkg/

Here is the contents of my pkglist:
term
baselib
system
netconf
bash
nmap
pthread
netutil
swaputil
ide
cdrom
scsi
scsi-aha7xxx
nfs-client
tcpdump
vi
openssh
nano
links
lilo
arping
diskutil
fileutil
sysutil
ntfstools
pump
curl
libc++
reiserfs

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Randy Walworth
IS Manager
Seattle Indian Health Board