I just attempted to install a wine based application including crossover office (application is Gupta Team Developer.  Bought it at Linuxworld San Francisco (any input re Gupta would be appreciated).  My machine came to a grinding halt.  I had to reboot while waiting several minutes for init to send term signals to processes.  Before rebooting, I had this mime error and after rebooting also: Little message boxes with the following titles: sorry amoroK   Kate  KDE panel Kdesktop and I thing Open Office Message in box is: could not find mime type application/octlet-stream ideas? Oh yes, and my visual foxpro (wine) no longer works -- John R. Sowden AMERICAN SENTRY SYSTEMS, INC. Residential & Commercial Alarm Service UL Listed Central Station Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 mail@americansentry.net www.americansentry.net