diff -uNr stress-kernel/drivers/crashme_driver.sh stress-kernel-foo/drivers/crashme_driver.sh
--- drivers/crashme_driver.sh	Mon Nov 26 11:28:46 2001
+++ drivers-foo/crashme_driver.sh	Mon Nov 26 11:44:35 2001
@@ -25,19 +25,28 @@
 # We start looking for an unused uid at $START_UID
 #
 CRASHER_NAME="crashme"
-CRASHER_PASSWD="$1$F1o51gmr$xKg3eYEDSgIvZx5WdKOIc."
+CRASHER_PASSWD='$1$F1o51gmr$xKg3eYEDSgIvZx5WdKOIc.'
 CRASHER_UID=40000 
 
 EXISTS=`grep "$CRASHER_UID" /etc/passwd`
 while [ "$EXISTS" ] ; do
-    CRASHER_UID = `expr $CRASHER_UID + 1`
+    CRASHER_UID=`expr $CRASHER_UID + 1`
     EXISTS=`grep $CRASHER_UID /etc/passwd`
 done
 
-/usr/sbin/useradd -d /tmp -p "$CRASHER_PASSWD" -s /bin/bash \
-    -u "$CRASHER_UID" "$CRASHER_NAME"
-[ $? -eq 0 ] || { echo "Can't create crashme user with uid $CRASHER_UID" ; \
-    exit 1 ; }
+# If the crashme_user already exists (for example, if the kernel
+# oopsed on a previous test run) we don't need to create a crashme
+# user.
+
+CRASHER_EXISTS=`grep "$CRASHER_NAME" /etc/passwd`
+if [ -z "$CRASHER_EXISTS" ] ; then
+
+    /usr/sbin/useradd -d /tmp -p "$CRASHER_PASSWD" -s /bin/bash \
+	-u "$CRASHER_UID" "$CRASHER_NAME"
+    [ $? -eq 0 ] || { echo "Can't create crashme user with uid $CRASHER_UID" ; \
+	exit 1 ; }
+
+fi
 
 trap cleanup SIGINT SIGHUP SIGTERM