On Feb 2, 2008 1:54 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:

Something else nasty is going on because for the last three reboots the machine has only remained up for about 5 minutes at a time before it becomes unable to execute any new programs and has to be power-cycled to restart it. I got one console message about a failed journal write before the second of those forced reboots.

This appears to be happening because the root filesystem is on a USB drive and the system has lost track of the device, as if the cable had been unplugged (even though it was not). I was accidentally able to see this happen while booted from the 5.0 CD in rescue mode, although I can't determine steps to reproduce it. In any case it's probably unrelated to the networking question, and certainly unrelated to the new kernel.