Quoting Jack Ungerleider (jack at jacku.com): > 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? grip is a cd ripper and lame is a mp3 encoder. So, it might be sound, but xmms works fine. I guess I'm looking for more ideas on debugging a system that locks hard. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9