Server Fubar'ed - Ideas welcomed

[Aaron Grewell]

> Anyway, it won't run for long at a time before the message 
> above reappears and only a hard reboot will bring it back to 
> life. (Has the P4 processor been damaged?)

It's certainly possible, but the P4's built-in heat sensor is supposed to
prevent that.  Once the temp rises high enough to cause damage, the CPU
shuts down altogether.

> dpkg says to reinstall it. But there's no option for 
> "reinstall", only "install". And that crashes.
> 

There's a force option, but for the life of me I can't recall exactly how it
goes.  I should say that last time I used it I broke some rather necessary
bits, so I'd be careful of it.