I've been able to reproduce the results (instant reboot) by running the vmlinux as a normal user in a clean Linux 2.4.10 plus ext3, on Red Hat Linux system, Pentium 233 MMX processor. I coulnd't reproduce the reboot in a Piii 750, kernel 2.4.15-pre2, either normal or root user (good SIGSEGV :)). It looks like it is a problem within the original kernel, and that it has been fixed in later releases... Regards -- Luciano Rocha, strange@nsk.yi.org The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want. -- D. Cohen