I am running SuSE Pro 8.2 on an AMD Duron, 1.2 GHz, 128 MB RAM. My kernal (k_athlon) is patched to 2.4.20-100 using the SuSE patch. The nVidia 4496 driver is installed and working correctly. All YOU patches that are relevant to my system appear to be installed. My printer is an HP Deskjet 612C. It was working earlier, but I don't use it much, and don't know when it stopped working. The print process hung a few days ago (consistently), so I tried to reconfigure it using YaST. But the YaST printer setup hangs, too, during the early "environment" part. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything in the "printing" rpm group, but it didn't help. Once I got as far as getting a dialog box that said, "Initializing CUPS server (2%)" before it hung. I deleted the following files mentioned in a SuSEwatcher warning: /etc/cups/classes.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmsave /opt/OpenOffice.org/share/psprint/psprint.conf.rpmsave but that didn't help. I can get the printer to print "Hello" by typing echo -en "\rHello\r\f" >/dev/lp0 I ran YOU twice recently. There was a problem with one patch involving yast2-printer, but it seemed to work the second time. Other possibly relevant information: OpenOffice also hangs, and it used to work, too. It still works from another SuSE 8.2 installation in an old "test" partition on this machine. It also works on my computer at work, which has an identical "user.sel" rpm list except for a different kernel (k_deflt) and a different version of release-notes. The last time I ran YOU, I couldn't see any new patches available to download, but clicked "accept" anyway, and was told it was downloading a KDE security patch. This was taking forever over my modem, and I was nervous about not knowing why it should be downloading anything, so I aborted. Memtest86 shows no problems. Can anyone shed some light on these problems? Thanks, Peter A. Taylor