I have been using smp kernels since I first installed FC3, and have had no problems until now. But after this last upgrade, my system starts up fine and gets to the Gnome login screen. I enter my user name and password, and it starts to log me in... and then totally locks up the whole system. If I boot the NON-smp kernel, it works fine. I do have a P4 with HyperThreading, and so the smp kernel loads as the system sees two CPUs. My log files don't seem to show anything out of the ordinary... all the services start up, gnome starts, and after the username and password are entered, I see gconfd loading it's configuration. The next thing I see is the machine starting up after I do a full reset. No error messages. I don't recall seeing anything in the past few days that are specific to smp kernels not booting when non-smp kernels work fine. So if anyone knows of a bug report or previous thread about this, please point me in that direction. Thanks -- David Registered Linux User 383030 (since everyone else was doing it 8-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- There are only 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.