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Hello all,
Well I've noticed that noone has yet to reply to my problem,
most likely because of its complexity. I've been able to narrow down the
problem however:
1.) The system freezes only when the
network is up
2.) Best guess is that it occurs when so much data has passed
through the ethernet adaptor
3.) This occasionally causes hard drive "inode errors" as
previously noted, likely when the system freeze just so happens
to
occur at the same time the system is writing to disk.
4.) This same eth adaptor (Netgear) had previously been used
as eth1 on a Slink system, and would suddenly "drop out" with
no notice while
handling massive data transfers on the local network.
5.) The other eth adaptor used to be error prone on the
previous (slink) system, and therefore was not put to use with the
Potato system ("eth0
transfer timed out 73654e0 vs (7352474)" or other such random characters
reported to syslog)
In reference to #1- recent reboots (which previously brought
the network back up) have stopped bringing the network back up.
Ping/telnet/etc works only to the machine's IP address and 'localhost'.... "no
route to host" error is displayed for all others. With no network- the
system has had over a day of uptime.
My best bet I suppose is to buy a better (expensive) eth
adaptor... but any thought would be appreciated before I part with 80 bucks for
a 3com.
Thanks
Mike
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