I finally found our AST's bios utility disk and it seems all cache memory is disabled. I sort of suspected this since we were running 1.2.5 on it for the past two years without problems.
Re the hostname well that has been set. Also we re-installed emacs. As for the other two machines they're DELL Poweredges, so sure there still could be a hardware problem, but then why did it run ok with 1.2.5? Rick Berger (819) 953-7019 Labour Operations Applications Development Human Resources Development Canada -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .