Henning Larsen wrote: > I would create a new user and log in as the new user, and see if the > problems disappears. > > If they do, then the problems is easier to locate. > If not, you could try to remove some of the programs with problems, and > reinstall them. What is the official way of re-installing a program in Fedora? In general "yum remove foo" will remove a large number of packages. Can one just remove the program with rpm and run "yum update"? -- 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