Well...I slogged over to the switchroom this morning equipped with holy water and various saints' relics (JUST kidding!) and moved both power cords off the outlet going to the UPS and onto a couple of powerstrips with surge protectors. I then brought the chassis back on line and held my breath while calls came in. All appears well thus far...am reserving judgment until tomorrow at least. A short discussion with 3Com tech support suggested to me that I have a couple of badly grounded outlets...I'm going to bring in this cute little plug-in tool I purchased for my home circuits tomorrow and test the outlets themselves. pbGenericError(46) means the packet bus link to the modem was brought down and the modem was not able to determine the reason (quoted more or less verbatim from a list the 3Com guy was generous enough to send me).
I saw that just this morning while working with my telco to transition 4 T1's from PRI to CT1. After making the configuration changes, saving to NVRAM, and rebooting, they would take the first DS0 on each T1 and bring it off-hook which should have caused the modem to start squealing but all they got was dead air. I looked at the modem stats and saw that it did receive a call but the reason for call failure was "pbGenericError". I took pb to mean packet bus so I did a hardware reset of the ARC which cleared the problem with the first T1 but not the others. A hardware reset of the 3 other DSP cards cleared the problem on the others.
I'm not sure what this means for you and your situation other than it's exactly the same error, but it may lead you to an ultimate solution. If you ever find out what that error means, please let me know. ;-)
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