It did turn out to be just an impatience error -- I should have waited
for venus to initialize. I have no further problems with either kernel
2.1.127 or 2.1.130.

I still think the "check kernel date" error in the subject above is
pretty vague, though.

Also, in an unrelated question, is it usual for codasrv to be taking
up 116 megs of ram? :)

  1:51pm  up 12 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.07, 0.10
39 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU  states:  0.7% user,  0.9% system,  0.0% nice, 198.5% idle
CPU0 states:  0.2% user,  0.3% system,  0.0% nice, 99.0% idle
CPU1 states:  0.2% user,  0.3% system,  0.0% nice, 99.0% idle
Mem:  257244K av, 245804K used,  11440K free,  19860K shrd,  89584K buff
Swap: 513936K av,    236K used, 513700K free                 14304K cached

  PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE LC STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  152 root      -5  -5  116M 116M  1312  1 S <   0.0 46.5   0:16 codasrv
  232 root       0   0  9360 9360  1684  0 S     0.0  3.6   0:01 XF86_SVGA
  147 root       2   0  5420 5420  1644  1 S     0.1  2.1   0:02 venus
  250 root       0   0  1388 1388  1160  1 S     0.0  0.5   0:00 xconsole
  235 root       0   0  1208 1204  1068  0 S     0.0  0.4   0:00 xdm
  219 root       2   0  1176 1152   784  1 S     0.1  0.4   0:03 sshd
  221 ben        7   0  1028 1028   748  0 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 zsh
  190 root       0   0   984  984   752  1 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 xntpd
  158 root       0   0   868  856   600  1 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 updatesrv
  157 root       0   0   832  820   616  1 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 updateclnt
  138 root       0   0   816  816   664  1 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 startserver
  176 lp         0   0   824  812   600  1 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 lpd
  224 root       0   0   808  792   700  1 S     0.0  0.3   0:00 xdm
  280 ben       17   0   728  728   548  0 R     1.3  0.2   0:00 top
  201 root       0   0   700  696   532  0 S     0.0  0.2   0:00 amd

Yikes! That's one big process.

Ben

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