Hi All, I'm having to send this from Windows hell, but I can't do anything in my Linux environment. I can log in, but every time I issue a command, I get told that it's not found. For instance, when I ran startx, it couldn't find the command. When I ran ls, it couldn't find the command. I even tried entering a path to the command, like /usr/bin/ls and /bin/ls, but to no avail. Yesterday, I did a couple of things on the computer and don't know if that had anything to do with my problem. First, I wanted to install my krecipes program which I retrieved via svn. When I tried to do that, I got told that for the present kde used unsermake instead of the gnu make utility. So, I installed unsermake and then did the "export PATH" thing to be able to use unsermake from where it was insalled. No perceivable problems after doing this. Then, I did a yum update which installed a number of new KDE packages from the updates-released repository. Today, I added a program which I installed via tarball and edited my .bash profile to make the permanent addition to my path. Then, I rebooted and now, no commands will work. Any ideas what is going on here and what I have to do to fix it? Regards, Colleen