When I rebooted a couple of hours ago I had problems; I couldn't log in. I don't know for sure if changing the runlevel added to or just didn't fix the problem of having xdm on my system, but I removed xdm and x-window-system and changed the run level back to "2" and the problem stopped happening. So I did some looking at dpkg options and came up with this: dpkg -r xdm --ignore-depends=x-sindow-system (all on one line) and when that worked I went on to do the same thing with -P (purge). I realize that overriding dependencies can be dangerrous, so if anybody does this and there are dire consequences, don't come to me for remuneration of any kind if your installation is hosed. However, I have rebooted a couple of times 9to be sure it is safe) and have run gnopernicus, and both I and my linux system appear to be intact. Cheryl _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list