(Apologies for my previous cutoff posting) Hiho, After I upgraded my SLES8 AMD64 installation to SP3, IBM's java virtual machine stopped working. $ rpm -qa|fgrep IBM IBMJava2-JRE_1_4-1.4.1-0 IBMJava2-SDK_1_4-1.4.1-0 $ strace32 /opt/IBMJava2-141/bin/java -version . . . mprotect(0xfffc7000, 4096, PROT_NONE) = 0 sigaltstack({ss_sp=0xfffbf000, ss_flags=0, ss_size=32768}, {ss_sp=0, ss_flags=SS_DISABLE, ss_size=0}) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [USR1], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [HUP INT QUIT USR1 TERM], NULL, 8) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 147456, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x5590e000 rt_sigaction(, NULL, It never returns from that system call. $ uname -a Linux heather 2.4.21-185-smp #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 16:52:13 UTC 2004 x86_64 unknown Any pointers? cheers, Firenza -- GMX ProMail (250 MB Mailbox, 50 FreeSMS, Virenschutz, 2,99 EUR/Monat...) jetzt 3 Monate GRATIS + 3x DER SPIEGEL +++ http://www.gmx.net/derspiegel +++