interesting problems

[Jason]

What was gnorpm upgrading or doing?

Hawke wrote:
> 
> ok,
> something wierd, strange and/or bizaar is going on with my system.
> overnight I have had gnorpm totally lock my box to the point that
> it required a hard reboot (and pick up the pieces later). the network
> card (a 3Com product) lost its connection (ifdown and ifup worked
> successfully twice, but on the third time, ifdown segfaulted <again
> forcing a hard reboot>) and my system self rebooted for not discernable
> reason that I've been able to find.
> 
> What concerns me most atm, is the NIC. could it be getting old (dying)?
> the behavior is such that it will remian dependable for days, weeks,
> months
> and then pull this crap and then the problem goes away again.
> 
> Could it be a software problem with redhat 7.0?
> 
> what about a bad module?
> 
> anything else I am missing here?
> 
> Hawke



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