The error did not show up immediately but did today. I was running winmx thru console as suggested and the error ocured today. I was just recieving a pm thru the chat in Winmx and when I clicked on 'Recieve Message' I got the "Winmx has encountered.... "error. As per your advice I have pasted the error log from the terminal here: http://pastebin.com/ghrXHikm Is there anything in this log that will help solve this problem? thanks