On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, J Sloan wrote: > I posted about this several days ago, but the > only response was a deafening silence - I can > only assume that I am the only one who has > seen the problems, or they're not considered > problems, or I'm doing something wrong - > > I've run prelink now on 2 different shrike > desktop systems, trying various options, > and on each system it causes the identical > flakiness. One thing in particular I noted > on both systems was that after prelinking, > the gnome logout button is broken - it has > no effect, so that CTRL-ALT-BKSP must > be used to exit. Occasionally, however, it > takes effect after perhaps 20 seconds, so > it's not consistent - > > I tried each of the following: > > prelink -av > prelink -avmR > prelink -avm --libs-only > > In each case, the result is a broken gnome > logout button. Undoing the prelink fixes > the problem immediately. > > Any clues? Is this known behaviour? > Can I get a sanity check from someone > in the know? I do not know if it is a known bug or not. I never heard of prelinking until a few days ago. That said I did the prelink thing on my 9 box and I am not seeing the above behaviour. Everything seems to work fine. I see that 8.0 also has prelink packages. Can someone who has used them comment on their functionality? HTH, -- .............Tom "Nothing would please me more than being able to tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." -- Bill Gates 1976 We are still waiting ....