Hi All, Fedora 2. This happens continually, and, the desktop icons don't appear. This is newly installed. Strange thing, though, had a similiar thing happen on the previous installed RH9, with "gnome-settings-daemon" (process 3073) has crashed due to a fatal error(aborted). What is happening here..? This is not happening on 2 other machines, with the same install, from the same CDs. Confused. Cheers. P.S. This OS has not touched the net, either, but, the machine itself, via Windows2000 on another partiton has. Have only installed 2 things on it, Crack, and Tripwire. Mark Sargent