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scabbage · 01:57 PM

Hey, folks,
I have been getting random crashes on my 10.3.7 box in the last couple of days. It goes like this:

I ssh in my server, open a screen session. And then open a bunch of windows in screen, each with a btdownloadcurses.py (bittorrent python client) running. And then when I try to ssh in a couple of hours later, my server is dead. No response whatsoever. Below are the last couple of lines of the system.log file:

Code:
Feb  9 21:13:35 myserver.server.com xinetd[333]: service ssh, IPV6_ADDRFORM setsockopt() failed: Protocol not available (errno = 42)
Feb  9 21:13:35 myserver.server.com xinetd[333]: START: ssh pid=8802 from=123.123.123.123
Feb  9 21:23:03 myserver.server.com sshd[8802]: Did not receive identification string from 123.123.123.123
Feb  9 21:31:02 myserver.server.com xinetd[333]: service ssh, IPV6_ADDRFORM setsockopt() failed: Protocol not available (errno = 42)
Feb  9 21:31:02 myserver.server.com xinetd[333]: START: ssh pid=8803 from=123.123.123.123
Feb  9 21:46:39 myserver.server.com sshd[8803]: Did not receive identification string from 123.123.123.123
Feb  9 21:58:03 myserver.server.com lookupd[193]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb  9 22:28:57 myserver.server.com lookupd[193]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb  9 23:10:50 myserver.server.com lookupd[193]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb  9 23:11:10 myserver.server.com lookupd[193]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb  9 23:54:57 myserver.server.com xinetd[333]: service ssh, IPV6_ADDRFORM setsockopt() failed: Protocol not available (errno = 42)
Feb  9 23:54:57 myserver.server.com xinetd[333]: START: ssh pid=8804 from=123.123.123.123
Feb 10 00:01:23 myserver.server.com sshd[8804]: Did not receive identification string from 123.123.123.123
Feb 10 00:30:29 myserver.server.com lookupd[193]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb 10 03:07:02 myserver.server.com lookupd[193]: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb 10 03:15:05 myserver.server.com CRON[8806]: (root) CMD (periodic daily) 
Feb 10 03:43:53 myserver.server.com nicl: NetInfo connection failed for server 127.0.0.1/local
Feb 10 03:57:17 myserver.server.com crashdump: Unable to determine CPSProcessSerNum pid: 8834 name: nicl
Feb 10 03:57:20 myserver.server.com crashdump: Started writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/nicl.crash.log
Feb 10 03:59:54 myserver.server.com crashdump: Finished writing crash report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/nicl.crash.log

and this is the /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/nicl.crash.log file:

Code:
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Host Name:      myserver.server.com
Date/Time:      2005-02-10 03:48:54 -0600
OS Version:     10.3.7 (Build 7S215)
Report Version: 2

Command: nicl
Path:    /usr/bin/nicl
Version: ??? (???)
PID:     8834
Thread:  0

Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes:      KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000018

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   nicl        0x000037dc nifty_statistics + 0x2c
1   nicl        0x00005900 nifty_cmd + 0x914
2   nicl        0x0000661c main + 0x5cc
3   nicl        0x000020bc _start + 0x188
4   nicl        0x00001f30 start + 0x30

PPC Thread State:
  srr0: 0x000037dc srr1: 0x0000d030                vrsave: 0x00000000
    cr: 0x24022244  xer: 0x20000006   lr: 0x000037dc  ctr: 0x90010800
    r0: 0x000037dc   r1: 0xbffffcc0   r2: 0x00000008   r3: 0x00000000
    r4: 0x00000000   r5: 0x0000004e   r6: 0x00000000   r7: 0x00000000
    r8: 0x00000000   r9: 0xa0008e82  r10: 0x00000016  r11: 0x44022228
   r12: 0x90010800  r13: 0x00000000  r14: 0x00000000  r15: 0x00000000
   r16: 0x00000000  r17: 0x00006068  r18: 0x00006068  r19: 0x00000001
   r20: 0x00000000  r21: 0x00006068  r22: 0x00000000  r23: 0x00000000
   r24: 0x00000001  r25: 0x0000827c  r26: 0xbffffed8  r27: 0x00000000
   r28: 0x00000000  r29: 0xbfffff39  r30: 0x00000000  r31: 0x000037b8

Binary Images Description:
    0x1000 -     0x7fff nicl    nicl
0x81db0000 - 0x81dc1fff libedit.2.dylib         /usr/lib/libedit.2.dylib
0x8fe00000 - 0x8fe4ffff dyld    /usr/lib/dyld
0x90000000 - 0x90122fff libSystem.B.dylib       /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
0x91ee0000 - 0x91efffff com.apple.NetInfo 1.0.0 (???)   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/NetInfo.framework/Versions/A/NetInfo
0x939d0000 - 0x939d4fff libmathCommon.A.dylib   /usr/lib/system/libmathCommon.A.dylib
0x94120000 - 0x9414bfff libncurses.5.dylib      /usr/lib/libncurses.5.dylib

myserver.server.com is my mac server and 123.123.123.123 is where I ssh from.
Could someone diagnose how the crash started? Thanks.