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Fellow Netware administrators,

I'm getting quite desperate due to repeated ABEND's on our NetWare
3.11 server (100 user license, 4 subnets, mostly PC's, some Unixes and
Apples attached).

The exact message is :

" ABEND : StartStation called with already initialized station.
Running Process : Polling Process".

The server had been running fine for some years, and the last 9-10
months no new NLM's have been added to the AUTOEXEC.CFG.

The first ABEND of this type occured in November 95, but only since
the start of Februari are we getting them at regular intervals (6-7
days apart), and recently we have them about every 2 to 3 days !

Some new Pentium-workstations have been added to the network since
Nov. 95, most of them with a 3C509-card. However, the large period of
stability between Nov.'95 and Feb.'96 strikes me as odd.

Unfortunately, there is NO information in the Novell WWW-database
about this abend ; the only third-party programs running are
Hellsoft's FTPD and David Harris' Mercury (both for about 2 years now)
and an evaluation version of McAfee's NetShield, which I've already
disabled, to no avail.

Since all Netware patches up to LIBUP5 have been installed many months
ago, and nothing else has changed on the server, I'm really without a
clue.

I suspect one of the (approx. 60) workstations behaving badly, but I
don't know how to trace it without interrupting network services for
our 100+ users.

Does anyone have the slightest clue ?


Sincereley, 
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Didier Moens - Laboratory of Molecular Biology
               University of Gent, Belgium

E-Mail : Didier.Moens@lmb1.rug.ac.be       root@lmb9.rug.ac.be
Phone  : 32-(0)9/264.53.09 or 32-(0)9/264.51.31
Fax   : 32-(0)9/264.53.48