Just to followup on my previous post, it looks like the following 32-bit libraries are required to start FDS on RHEL4 x86_64: libgcc libstdc++ libtermcap ncurses e2fsprogs krb5-libs That seems to allow the server to start, though I'm still not able to run the console. Unfortunately, I'm not familiar enough with Java to know if this is due to a Java/path issue, a missing 32-bit library issue, or just not getting the X forwarding right. :-( Here's the error in case something jumps out at somebody (I'm using the ibm-java from RHEL4 extras, as I understood from another thread that it's the correct jre for this...). [canfield]$ ssh -X elwe.test /opt/fedora-ds/startconsole Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel.initialize(WindowsLookAndFeel.java:154) at com.netscape.management.nmclf.SuiLookAndFeel.initialize(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.java:424) at com.netscape.management.client.console.Console.common_init(Unknown Source) at com.netscape.management.client.console.Console.<init>(Unknown Source) at com.netscape.management.client.console.Console.main(Unknown Source) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary0(ClassLoader.java:2159) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1994) at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:824) at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:908) at sun.security.action.LoadLibraryAction.run(LoadLibraryAction.java:76) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged1(Native Method) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(AccessController.java:287) at java.awt.Toolkit.loadLibraries(Toolkit.java:1488) at java.awt.Toolkit.<clinit>(Toolkit.java:1511) ... 6 more Thanks DC