Greetings; This ulimit bs is attacking me again. I thought putting it into the rc.local file would be a universal fix, but it appears not to be the case. It appears in my checks just now, to be shell invocation specific, so I've now added that to my .bashrc. If it fails this time, it will make 5 times now that I've restarted k3b & sat 10 minutes through the md5sum operations just to find out I can't do this. Seems to me there ought to be a better way to do this error reporting up front instead of subjecting the user to all this wash, rinse, repeat folderol. k3b should check this immediately on clicking one of the burn iso image icons. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I have more hit points that you can possible imagine.