Did an upgrade (NOT an install from scratch) to 9.3. Then started having problems trying to run Gnome-related stuff. Found the explanation. Last year, one way or another, I ended up with a Gtk library in /usr/local/lib. 9.3 put that same library into /opt/gnome/lib. But the upgrade hadn't cleaned up the previous /usr/local/lib. Result: This year's Gnome was still fetching from /usr/local/lib, and the module there didn't cut the mustard. My conclusion: The 'Update an existing system' installation process did not check whether the files it put into place had duplicates elsewhere in my system. [And when SuSEConfig runs, it re-links in the obsolete /usr/local/lib module !!] I *still* haven't figured out why on my 9.3 system the Gnome-related stuff was looking for that Gtk library first in /usr/local/lib and not first in /opt/gnome/lib. mikus