Hi, Twice now since installing 9.3 I've found an instance of fam (/usr/sbin/fam) soaking up all the CPU cycles it could get. This morning when I awoke was the most recent occurrence. When I noticed it, it had just passed the 8-hour mark of cumulative CPU time. I had remained logged in and do not lock the screen, though I have a screen saver configured as well as DPMS enabled. There was no trouble accessing the existing session. Other, probably related symptoms include hang of KMail during start-up (its window displays but does not get drawn and subsequently must be forcibly terminated) and Mozilla not getting far enough to even display a window before hanging. The fam process appeared to be owned by my UID, but neither I nor root could kill it ("Operation not permitted"). Attempting to renice it gave the same error message. I was able reboot without further incident (I was worried that the unkillable process would wedge the shutdown process) but afterward the "kdm is changed to xdm" problem reoccurred. Has anybody seen this or anything like it? Have you solved it, perchance? I have fam-2.6.10-123 installed. Thanks. Randall Schulz