Hi Jean I done depmod -a but that did not help. I note the following problems on my Debian PPC: -the panel does not start up. In the beginning I get 'Gnome settings daemon has been restartet to often' - 'will try to restart at next reboot...' -When I hit the reply button on my sylpheed-claws my sylpheed-claws crashes telling me that it does not find the german language file: Unhandled Error: /usr/lib/aspell//de-only.rws: The language "de" is not known. This is probably becuase the file "/usr/local/share/aspell/de.dat" can not be opened for reading. Abgebrochen in fact: all that is installed. I am no trying to install a newer kernel version, lets see if that helps or not... Any hints regarding my 'Gnome settings daemon'? Thanks Zeno