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I posted the other day about problems rebuilding the system kernels, I 
have now solved this problem after 36 hours of pulling my hair out and no 
fewer than 3 reinstalls!

The problem seemed to be sporadic hard disc errors, which I could not pin 
down. There were also random signals happening - SIGTERM was getting 
through?!!? GZIP was failing, it kept on getting CRC failures, these were 
coming off CDROM - so it couldn't be actual corruption!

In short the entire system was seriously broken... After I had 
reformatted & re-installed 3 times to no avail I decided that it must be 
some form of hardware failure - I thought the hard disc had gone down (it 
is 3 years old and has been on almost constantly in that time) but it 
turned out that the network card was not seated correctly - this is 
strange because the kernel was acknowledging the presence of a network 
card & it was apparantly working perfectly.

Removal of the offending card fixed all the problems!!

The moral of this story is *CHECK THE HARDWARE* if you get any random 
errors, don't assume it is a software problem...

Regards,

Jonathan

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