bit rot!

[dieter at titan.nmt.edu]

The symptoms:

We've been noticing that /lib/ccom on one of our 3/280s (titan) will start
core dumping almost instantly upon start up.  Doing a "diff" with the same
file on our other 3/280 (jupiter) doesn't report any problems.  Once it
starts happening, the odds of getting a successful compile rapidly
approach zero.  If we rcp /lib/ccom from jupiter, everything works again.
This seems to recur on about a 6 month cycle.

/lib/ccom has only died on titan, never on jupiter.

The questions:

Does this sound like a familiar problem to anyone?  If so, anyone have a
fix?  BTW, the inode number for /lib/ccom is 79.

Ideas?

Dieter Muller
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