Hi everybody, We found a bad comparison which turned out to be the real cause of the RVM_EOFFSET problems. An updated release of the rvm package is on the ftp site. ftp://ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/rvm RVM-1.1 is compatible with existing clients and servers. The bug only seems to have been affecting installation of new servers, but the fix might have cured some other more obscure problems. Jan