Hi Ari and all, I really blew it yesterday when I hastily deleted the residual libsafe pieces that the Slackware "removepkg" did not get rid of. It turns out that the damn thing had modified the linux dynamic loader to invoke libsafe every time it was executed, and without the libsafe component I threw away, the dynamic loader was broken. Try doing ANYTHING on a Linux system with a broken dynamic loader!!! Of course I made it worse in my panic and anger, and ended up having to reinstall my root partition with a new base system and then scrambling to get my /usr and /home partitions back on board. I guess it pays to be more cautious, but I was really on a roll with putting new stuff on this box and added libsafe hastily. I appreciate everybody's help with this. Chuck -- The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (89% of Full) So visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck
