2009/6/23 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>: > > kstartupconfig4: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.7: cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory That looks like it may be the primary error. libssl.so.7 is not provided (as far as I can tell) by any package in Fedora 11 (is that the version you're running?). /usr/lib/libssl.so.8 (note the digit) is provided by openssl-0.9.8k-5.fc11, but there's nothing providing the .7 version any more. I don't even know what might be wanting to use that old library. Have you tried "package-cleanup --problems" to see if anything is messed up dependency-wise? MEF -- Mary Ellen Foster -- http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/ ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.