I downloaded the newer initrd and kernel image, and IPLed under VM. At the very end of the startup, I got these errors, and sshd was not running: Starting telnetd and sshd to allow login over the network. Generating ssh keys, This can take a while... Generating host_key Generating rsa_key Generating dsa_key chmod: getting attributes of `ssh_host_key': No such file or directory chmod: getting attributes of `ssh_host_rsa_key': No such file or directory chmod: getting attributes of `ssh_host_dsa_key': No such file or directory chmod: getting attributes of `*.pub': No such file or directory Done /sbin/sshd: error while loading shared libraries: libpam.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Please connect now to 192.168.0.20 and start 'rhsetup' or start 'rhsetup nointeractive' from this shell. ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:06 sh /sbin/init 2 ? SW 0:00 [kmcheck] 3 ? SW 0:00 [kflushd] 4 ? SW 0:00 [kupdate] 5 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd] 6 ? SW 0:00 [keventd] 7 ? SW 0:00 [loopd] 8 ? SW< 0:00 [mdrecoveryd] 25 ? S 0:00 portmap 32 ? S 0:00 /sbin/inetd 40 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh -l 42 ? R 0:00 ps ax Mark Post