hi Curt. for the first question : yes i always do the things below: #portupgrade -arR and #cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/por... i mean yes my ports up to date. and for the second : root@localhost# php -v Segmentation fault (core dumped) root@localhost# php-config --version 5.0.5 root@localhost# dont know how to solve this troublesome problem.