I tried sending this Friday night, but found this morning it kicked back to me because it was too large of an email. I upgraded my work system from 8.0 to 8.2 and everything went perfectly!! Now, being Friday night and 2 Long Island Ice Teas in me, I decided to upgrade my home system. Firstly, let me say, that this was my "tester" machine. When I screwed things up and figured out how to fix them, I did it the right way on my work system. I had dependency problems all over the place. Rather than explain everything, here's my boot log. I'm sure in a heartbeat you'll see the problem. I can see it, I just don't know how to fix it. Here it goes (the part I think where things go south is in RED): Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.20-4GB Loaded 20952 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.20-4GB. Symbols match kernel version 2.4.20. Loaded 202 symbols from 11 modules. klogd 1.4.1, log source = ksyslog started. *********had to cut everything else out because the email was too large for the server. If you want, I can send as attachment.************ <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13nscd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13rpmconfigcheck start Searching for unresolved configuration files done (This is where things start to get bad...) Please check the following files (see /var/adm/rpmconfigcheck): /etc/HOSTNAME.rpmnew /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc.rpmsave /etc/X11/qtrc.rpmnew /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/cs.rpmsave /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/cs_qwerty.rpmsave /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/gr.rpmsave /etc/aliases.rpmnew /etc/apt/apt.conf.rpmsave /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmnew /etc/apt/sources.list.rpmsave /etc/cups/classes.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/classes.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/client.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/client.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/cupsd.conf.rpmsave /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmnew /etc/cups/printers.conf.rpmsave /etc/hosts.allow.rpmnew /etc/httpd/httpd.conf.rpmnew /etc/httpd/suse_addmodule.conf.rpmsave /etc/httpd/suse_loadmodule.conf.rpmsave /etc/inetd.conf.rpmnew /etc/init.d/postfix.rpmsave /etc/init.d/xntpd.rpmsave /etc/inittab.rpmnew /etc/isdn/isdn.conf.rpmsave /etc/mailcap.rpmsave /etc/mime.types.rpmsave /etc/postfix/main.cf.rpmnew /etc/postfix/master.cf.rpmnew /etc/profile.rpmsave /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmnew /etc/samba/smb.conf.rpmsave /etc/ssh/ssh_config.rpmnew /etc/ssh/sshd_config.rpmnew /etc/sudoers.rpmnew /etc/sysconfig/network/config.rpmnew /etc/syslog.conf.rpmsave /etc/wvdial.conf.rpmnew /usr/share/info/dir.rpmnew <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13rpmconfigcheck start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13sshd start Starting SSH daemon<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/sshd) [ /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=36 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 AUTOBOOT=YES COLUMNS=118 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 BOOT_IMAGE=linux splash=silent sscripts=43 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/sshd ] done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13sshd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13yiff start Starting yiff done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S13yiff start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14joystick start Starting joystick driver/lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/ns558.o: insmod ns558 failed done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14joystick start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14kbd start /dev/dsp: Cannot open for playing. Loading keymap qwerty/us.map.gz doneLoading compose table winkeys shiftctrl latin1.add done Loading console font lat1-16.psfu doneLoading screenmap none doneSetting up console ttys done<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14kbd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14splash start <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S14splash start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S15hwscan start Starting hardware scan on boot<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S15hwscan start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16xdm start Starting service xdm<notice>startproc: execve (/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm) [ /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ], [ LC_MONETARY= CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh LC_NUMERIC= QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 LC_ALL= progress=42 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 KDEROOTHOME=/root/.kdm REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 AUTOBOOT=YES COLUMNS=118 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin LC_MESSAGES= RUNLEVEL=5 LC_COLLATE=POSIX PWD=/ LANG=en_US PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 BOOT_IMAGE=linux no_proxy=localhost RC_LC_COLLATE=POSIX WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde PRINTER=lp RC_LANG=en_US LC_CTYPE=en_US splash=silent sscripts=43 LC_TIME= _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm ] done <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S16xdm start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S20inetd start Starting inetd<notice> done startproc: execve (/usr/sbin/inetd) [ /usr/sbin/inetd ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux SHELL=/bin/sh progress=43 INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 AUTOBOOT=YES COLUMNS=118 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/ PREVLEVEL=N LINES=38 HOME=/ SHLVL=2 BOOT_IMAGE=linux splash=silent sscripts=43 _=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/usr/sbin/inetd ] <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S20inetd start' exits with status 0 <notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21splash_late start <notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S21splash_late start' exits with status 0 Master Resource Control: runlevel 5 has been reached Skipped services in runlevel 5: smbfs nfs <notice>killproc: kill(686,3) <The End> Maybe I should have had 3 Long Islands??? Right now I'm using fvwm window manager. Any help would be great! If I wanted to do a fresh install, but still keep my /home/tom files in tact, how can I do it? I'd like to clean this computer up. Thanks!! Tom P.S. It's almost 12:00am California time and I don't know how much longer I can stay up, so don't expect me to respond too quickly. :-) --- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems, Inc. 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com