Robert, Have you considered the possiblity of bad blocks on your hard drive? I saw something like that on my AppleRAID (with two SATA drives) of my dual G5. The fink builds were failing randomly until I reformatted the problem drive with zeroing to allow it to spare out bad blocks. If you happen to have AppleCare, you can download a free copy of TechTool Deluxe which can detect bad blocks. I have often found that the weirder crashes can often be from those rather than bad memory (especially since the dual G5 does a decent memory check on startup). Jack
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