My ThinkPad (T20) does not shutdown properly. I'm told that this is because I am polling the temperature (with cpuinfo), and also the battery. Actually, I would rather have the battery and temperature info than shutdown properly, so I regard it as a price I have to pay. (It does not seem to have any bad consequences, since the hard disk does stop.) But is there any way round this? Has it been notified as a bug, and if so of what? (I couldn't find it after a brief search.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland