(I moved this from the devel list as users seemed more appropriate to me.) PGNet said: > If, in the Fedora Management Console GUI I click through to the > Servers & Applications Tab, and select the Server, I get a "Class > Loader Error" dialog, > "Failed to instantiate Server Object for Directory Server (fds): > com.netscape.admin.dirserv.DSAdmin" I get the same error if I build all the components of the console in to the same built directory (../built or whatever you changed it to). Try deleting it between each one. My notes on building the console on OS X can be found here http://jadickinson.co.uk/test/howto/fedora-ds-console-on-os-x/ John