Some (kde) applications now have a warning appear in xconsole: Warning: pid 595 used static ldt allocation. See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info Warning: pid 596 used static ldt allocation. See the i386_set_ldt man page for more info Should I worry about that? Rebuild KDE? -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de