I don't know if this is a gnome issue or not, but it has been around since at least RH 9, and I now see it still in Fedora Core 2. If one edits network parameters using the gui applet (system-network-config?), the desktop basically stops working afterwards, and no gui applets open from the menu until the system is restarted. I thought it was a quirk of RH 9, or perhaps the version of gnome RH 9 uses, but I now see exactly the same behavior in Fedora Core 2, which I just installed for the first time. I'm surprised that this behavior still persists, after all the water that has passed under the bridge since RH 9. What's going on? Is there a user fix? Basil __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail