| I notice that things are not as reliable as before.  I have had a few
| interesting panic crashes.

Umm, reading your message, I don't see any information about panics
at all. Please note that when you do get a panic, the right thing to do
is to file a PR and to include the stack trace from the panic.

| One was caused by a power outage, that trashed my /. 

Err, a power outage is not a panic -- or did the power outage take
place and then you get a panic subsequently? In any case, "trashing"
your filesystem should not happen. Is it possible for you to explain
in detail what symptoms you saw?

| Since then I have installed 1.5.2 on the same disk, and so far no
| crashes.

Sounds like no panics, then, yes? One power-induced problem and no
further problems?

| Still, certain things do not appear to be consistent.  For a while,
| I could not ping one of my other computers on my network, and then I
| could after a few reboots of the 386 box.

We'd need more information.

| Another time, I ran pppd to open a connection to the isp, and I
| could not read the network table with netstat -r.

Perhaps you had no DNS? Try netstat -rn.


Thanks for your report, though.

--jhawk