Hi Veteran Linux Users, I took the plunge on fedora core ! about two days ago and although I had probs with the updates, with a little work on the internet I was able to solve it on my own. however there are 2 things that are perplexing me. 1. On fedora core boot up the service "smartd" fails to start. To my best knowledge this service checks the health of the disk drive. I have a dual boot system of XP PRO and Fedora core ! on the same drive. would that make a difference on if the service successfully starts. How do I go about starting and configuring this service to work? 2. On shutdown and when it gets to sending all processes the term signal, I get a cryptic message of "md: recovery thread got woken up" and then it proceeds to send all processes the kill signal. Since I'm new to this any help from the more seasoned users would be much appreciated thanks MButterman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you?re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com