hey Henri, Henri Cook wrote: > I run a webserver (remotely administered, no graphical user interface that > i know of - certainly not one running all the time) - in the past few days > this error has started to occur, the system dies and needs manually > rebooting after each occurence: you forgot to mention what kernel you are running and when was the last time you yum updated the machine ? are you also running some sort of web control panel that might ( bad idea ) be suppressing packages from being updated ? while the machine is running - check lsmod, to see if any strange modules are being loaded ? > The machine runs CentOS 3 and has been for ~2 Years, a technician at the > datacentre ran Memtest earlier today which returned no errors. normally you would run memtest for a while ( overnight 12 - 16 hr cycles work best ) before you have a real result. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq