Hi gang, If anyone recognizes these error statements, I would sure appreciate a tip as to where to look to correct it: ---------- tdb_store failed: Success tdb_store failed: Corrupt database ---------- These errors appear intermixed with normal messages from the "ppp-go" and "ppp-off" processes. The first one is the most numerous one to appear, but once the second one appears, I am in deep trouble. Typically when I shut down my dialup connection with ppp-off, if the "corrupt database" version appears, I cannot connect again, and continuing to attempt it will crash my system. The kernel cannot handle page requests, ending with a kernel panic trying to kill init. Here is how it all began this afternoon (no snickers please): I put a winmodem in my system, a PCI device for which I had the manufacturer's recommended Linux driver, adapted from the www.linmodem.org collection, according to the specs. The driver compiled okay and installed okay, and after adjusting my connect script, options file, and the /dev/modem symbolic link, the modem at first appeared to work successfully. I actually dialed out with it and handled some email, visited the web, listened to an audio stream, all those good things, no problem. Then I put the link down and the above messages appeared for the first time. Now they appear when I dial up and when I take it down both. I have of course removed the winmodem and undid all the installation crap and am now once again using my external modem, but the same errors still appear. I find no reference to "tdb_store" with grep in any of the driver source files, I have read the docs carefully with no reference to any such thing, and now that the drivers are history and the errors persist, I have to assume they are kernel errors from some subterranean source. I am really stymied now. My immediate goal is to restore this system to good health, screw the Winmodem! It was just a test of the drivers for a friend anyway. Distro=Slackware 8.0; kernel=2.4.5; this has been a rock solid system for months until my adventure this afternoon. Thanks for any tips - Chuck Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is Waning Crescent (2% of Full)
