On 19/06/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This is starting to sound like a HW failure of some kind. > That's what I suspected, too. I have run several checks with Hiron's boot disk, such as memtest86 and have found nothing. Dotan Cohen
I had a similar problem - random failures affecting a wide range of system and userland s/w. Ran memtest, it reported the RAM to be fine, but when I replaced the RAM the problems went away. If you can get a stick of known good RAM, try swapping it in and see if it helps.
Chris