The Death is back .

["Adam Williams" <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Any of you who remember by "Dieing in it's sleep problem"  will be glad to knwo
that the problem is back.  The server ran for several days,  and then I went to
lunch and came back to find it dead (blank screen, no pingy, nothing).  This is
with a Generic NE2000 ethernet card (10Mbps) installed,  I thought I had traced
the problem to a 3com Fast ethernet card.  The system reboots with some errors
on one of the partitions,  and then no longer lets me set a network route
through the ethernet card,  although the interface is up,  and I can set host
routes,  and communicate with those hosts.  If I try to set a network route it
complains that the network mask is incorrect,  although it has the correct mask
on the 'ifconfig' output.  This just seems very wierd.  I will now re-install
and try newer kernel versions (I have 2.0.30 installed).  Could this be a SCSI
controller/driver problem?

One other interesting detail,  I got a GPF (yes, a general protection fault)
before the machine crashed.  The GPF was generated by a shell script that
merges two text files. !!! I've never seen one of these under Linux before,  I
had MS flashbacks.