After an extensive upgrade of my glibc packages, Steve Byrne's latest JDK works. Except that as soon as I try to load a native library (recompiled with the new glibc) I get: SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation stackbase=0xbffff500, stackpointer=0xbffff3f8 Full thread dump: "TimerQueue" (TID:0x40665660, sys_thread_t:0x4143ce0c, state:R) prio=4 "AWT-Motif" (TID:0x40663f38, sys_thread_t:0x4141be0c, state:R) prio=5 "AWT-Input" (TID:0x40663f58, sys_thread_t:0x413fae0c, state:R) prio=5 "AWT-EventQueue-0" (TID:0x40663f70, sys_thread_t:0x413d9e0c, state:R) prio=5 "Finalizer thread" (TID:0x4065f208, sys_thread_t:0x413a3e0c, state:R) prio=1 "Async Garbage Collector" (TID:0x4065f250, sys_thread_t:0x41382e0c, state:R) prio=1 "Idle thread" (TID:0x4065f298, sys_thread_t:0x41361e0c, state:R) prio=0 "Clock" (TID:0x4065f088, sys_thread_t:0x41340e0c, state:CW) prio=12 "main" (TID:0x4065f0b0, sys_thread_t:0x81da210, state:R) prio=5 *current thread* java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(Runtime.java) java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java) -- Louis-David Mitterrand http://www.aparima.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]