-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, I am still enthusiastic about unstable, even after this problem. It turns out that modutils was pretty much replaced by another package, but was still installed, and when I got up enough courage to remove it and purge its files, everything cleared up nicely. Evidently I overlooked something in a changelog or somewhere that would have told me in advance to do that. But the advantages of keeping current with Sid far outweigh the occasional problems that might arise. This is the first problem I have had with unstable in -- let's see -- closer to a year than to six months now. One thing that helps is to install apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges, which warn you during the upgrade process about known problems. Of course you have to pay attention to those warnings, though. <smile> Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Gibbous (73% of Full) Get downloads from http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh and remember, INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFERWt8XnuiIOyDVQURAleFAJ9lK+sjFK0JSozU5AsFZCg8Y/7jLwCfYA4j HNE9g3ktA74TuZtzL6bp40o= =L5X8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----