On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 10:20:20PM +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> >message "Bus error".
> "bus error" is a signal inheritted from someone's minicomputer (DEC
> maybe?).

More common on 68000-based machines, but stemming from certain
instructions needing their operands to be word-aligned. If the operand
wasn't properly aligned, it caused a bus fetch error.

> When it occurs it generally points to some kind of software error (such
> as executing ramdom code*) or (on toys) memory errors.

Another possibility -- wrong architecture RPM (ie, IA32 RPM that
somehow got installed on s390 via --force or somesuch).

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