Avati, This is i386 architecture PII/PIII. some how max_block_size got corrupted. It was initialized to default value properly though. -- Anand Babu Periasamy GPG Key ID: 0x62E15A31 Blog [http://ab.freeshell.org] The GNU Operating System [http://www.gnu.org] Z RESEARCH Inc [http://www.zresearch.com] Anand Avati wrote: > > > The key error message seems to be this one (note the high > negative > maximum number): > > 2008-08-24 18:11:45 E > [protocol.c:342:gf_block_unserialize_transport] server: frame size > (168) > max (-2147458000) > > > This seems to be a compiler or build related issue. What is your > nickname on IRC? we could try to debug it online.. what architecture is > this machine? I remember another user having this issue on a mips > machine but we could not get around to actually debug it. > > avati