I think I know the process of how I got knocked out (and now can't get back in), but I'm not sure where it needs to be restored to. You would think I would learn not to get too experimental at 1:15am anymore. I was updating my UT2K3 installation, which I had used some workarounds someone used to get it working with RHL 9. I can't remember the exact changes I made, but they were changing around some of the symlinks in /lib/i686. I thought I had made the switches back, but something must not have been right because now I get this message when I try to startx: /usr/bin/gnome-session: relocation error: /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0: symbol _h_errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference waiting for X server to shut down Here is what my current /lib/i686/* looks like: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1548424 Apr 7 18:25 libc-2.3.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 12 09:33 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 212020 Apr 7 18:25 libm-2.3.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 12 09:33 libm.so.6 -> libm-2.3.2.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 93268 Apr 7 18:25 libpthread-0.10.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 12 09:33 libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-0.10.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 37592 Apr 7 18:25 librt-2.3.2.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Apr 12 09:33 librt.so.1 -> librt-2.3.2.so Does it look obvious to anyone what I managed to mangle and what to switch it back to? I don't have another RHL 9 box to compare it to. TIA, Brian bts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org