Hi people - I wrote a complicated description of my latest puzzler yesterday, and today I have more information but no solution yet. The errors occur when initiating or terminating a dialup (with ppp-go and ppp-off) and seem to refer to a "tdb" database. The errors either say "tdb_store failed: success" or "tdb_store failed: corrupt database" They are issued amongst the normal messages from the ppp-go and ppp-off messages, and now that I am once again using my external modem, they do not seem to adversely affect the system (knock on wood). I am now wondering about another possible cause of these messages. A few days ago I upgraded my kernel from the default Slackware 8.0 version 2.2.19 to the 2.4.5 kernel which Slackware supplies as an alternative and an entry point into the 2.4.X series. But I did not reinstall the system, only the kernel and modules. I am wondering what other people's experiences might have been upgrading from the 2.2.X to the 2.4.X kernels on an existing system. The ppp drivers seem much more sophisticated in the new series with somewhat different choices available in kernel configuration, which makes me wonder if there might be something I have overlooked. I have scoured the docs and howtos and find only very scant mention of the "tdb" database now used by PPP, but no detail at all about where it is, what might corrupt it, or why it might not be being used correctly. I have written to the maintainer of pppd for Linux, whose email address no longer works! Wonderful. Before turning to a standard Linux support list, I thought I would give you folks one more chance to bail me out with some timely wisdom. I need it badly! Chuck Visit me now at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck The Moon is New
