The last thing in the logs was:
Feb 4 08:54:26 oakley modprobe: can't locate module
Feb 4 08:54:41 oakley last message repeated 3 times
Feb 4 08:55:04 oakley modprobe: can't locate module connection for
Feb 4 08:55:04 oakley modprobe: can't locate module connection for
Feb 4 08:55:14 oakley last message repeated 8 times
Feb 4 08:57:16 oakley modprobe: can't locate module connection for
Feb 4 08:58:17 oakley last message repeated 46 times
Feb 4 08:59:25 oakley last message repeated 16 times
Feb 4 09:00:25 oakley last message repeated 25 times
Feb 4 09:01:11 oakley last message repeated 7 times
Feb 4 09:02:33 oakley last message repeated 15 times
Feb 4 09:05:21 oakley modprobe: can't locate module connection for
Feb 4 09:06:24 oakley last message repeated 20 times
Feb 4 09:07:25 oakley last message repeated 17 times
Feb 4 09:08:30 oakley last message repeated 56 times
Feb 4 09:09:31 oakley last message repeated 59 times
The machine has been behaving very srtangely lately (due to dodgy hard
drives and other stuff) so it may be related to that.
-- Mike