On Thursday 23 August 2001 03:39, you wrote: > Running RH 7.0 with Kernel 2.4.8. > > Installation of Star Office hangs the box, using grip/lame hangs the box, > installing Win2K as a guest OS under VMWare hangs the box. Anyone see any > commonality here? > > XFree86-4.1.0-0.0.1 > > Not sure what lese could be causing the box to hang. No logs, no oops, > nothing. Not sure its of any value but when I attempted to install SuSE 7.2 on an older laptop it would stop dead whenever I tried to use the sound system. (ie xmms, etc.) It would play for about 3 seconds and then lockup hard. Even happened twice while using the SuSE sound card config utility. I down graded to 7.0 and loaded the included OSS and it works fine. Considering your suspect apps it might be sound. Although the Star Office has me stumped there. I'm not familiar with grip/lame does it use Java? Could you have a bad VM? -- Jack Ungerleider jack at jacku.com