I've just had a couple of crashes occasioned by power failures. Now java's not working: [summer@possum data]$ javac -d ~/Classes/ DBTrades.java SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation stackbase=(nil), stackpointer=0xbfffe9b0 Full thread dump: "Clock" (TID:0x404aa088, sys_thread_t:0x4134be0c, state:CW) prio=12 NULL (TID:0x404aa0b0, sys_thread_t:0x82236c0, state:R) prio=5/usr/lib/jdk117_v1a/bin/i686/green_threads/javac: line 19: 1957 Killed `dirname $0`/${progname} $RUNTIME_ARGS -ms8m $RUNTIME_ARGS sun.tools.javac.Main $APP_ARGS [summer@possum data]$ [summer@possum data]$ java -fullversion java full version "Linux_JDK_1.1.7_v1a_green_threads" [summer@possum data]$ On the offchance java itself got broken I removed its directory and reuntarred it. What else should I try reinstalling? [summer@possum data]$ uname -a Linux possum.os2.ami.com.au 2.2.0-pre7 #2 Thu Jan 21 16:28:56 WST 1999 i686 unknown Last time I installed this box, it was RH 5.0. -- Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.