  Sufficient conditions are found on the ion velocity distribution $f_i$ and
potential amplitude for stability of steady electron holes moving at slow
speeds, coinciding with the bulk of $f_i$. Fully establishing stability
requires calculation of the ion response to shift potential perturbations
having an entire range of oscillatory frequencies, because under some
conditions real frequencies intermediate between the ion and electron responses
prove to be unstable even when the extremes are not. The mechanism of this
overstability is explained and calculated in detail. Electron holes of peak
potential $\psi$ less than approximately 0.01 times the background temperature
($\psi\lesssim 0.01T_0/e$) avoid the oscillatory instability entirely. For
them, the \emph{necessary} condition that there be a local minimum in $f_i$ in
which the hole resides is also \emph{sufficient}, unless the magnetic field $B$
is low enough to permit the transverse instability having finite wavenumber $k$
perpendicular to $B$.
