I have also seen this problem very occasionally along with other strange problems that I finally chased down to a design flaw in the cache timing of the motherboard I was using. It was causing programs (some more often than others) to get kernel paging request failures.
Gcc was really good at finding the problem and would abort cleanly on a signal 11. Try doing a kernel compile. If it fails somewhere with a signal 11 error you probably have a hardware problem lurking in your system. BTW, as I remember, I found all of this information In the kernel 2.0 readme or changes file. Good luck, Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
