It appears that cdrecord-2.0-11.1, upgraded from Rawhide on 7/17, is causing a kernel panic. I did the upgrade to fix the permissions bug in the the stock Shrike cdrecord package. I'm running kernel-2.4.20-18.9, glibc-2.3.2-27.9, both via Redhat up2date. Here are selected entries from my /var/log/messages: Jul 17 22:30:50 Verdi kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 7578, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read TOC 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 40 Jul 17 22:32:56 Verdi kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 10125, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 After these, the machine completely locks, with Cap Loc and Scroll Lock lights blinking. Power off to fix. I had 1) created an iso using mkisofs, 2) had burned the image and 3) cdredord was 'fixating' when this occurred. Does the kernel release of yesterday fix this? John -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list