I work with a guy who installed 9.1, but when he went to do the online updates, he got a message indicating that the server list couldn't be written to disk. I don't have the exact message, and I didn't watch him do the install, so I don't know if he did it right (he's a Windows tech, but wants to convert), but is there anything there that sounds familiar? As the guy who brought SUSE into our shop back in '97, I feel somewhat responsible to the newbies, but I do not have the time to diagnose this at length. Does anything obvious spring to mind? He logged in as himself and did the usual YaST thing that starts kdesu... -- ======================================================= Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ------------------------------------------------------- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.) ------------------------------------------------------- -H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926 =======================================================