hi, is an errata test-kernel available ? http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html $ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) $ uname -a Linux xp1800 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl #1 Wed Apr 21 20:35:41 EDT 2004 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux the machine freezes as root -- shrek-m