This was taken from LWN: ------------------------ There have been consistent reports of file corruption errors in 2.2.9 and beyond. This is a strange problem - it affects relatively few people, and has proved to be very hard to nail down. It was initially thought to be hardware-related, but enough evidence has come in to strongly indicate the existence of a kernel bug. Alan Cox is hot on the trail of this problem - see his first and second summaries of what he has turned up so far. It may well be that the problem will have been nailed down by the time you read this; if so, information can be found in the LWN daily updates page. For the links: http://lwn.net/1999/0624/a/ac-corruption1.html http://lwn.net/1999/0624/a/ac-corruption2.html http://lwn.net/daily/ ------------------------- Now, I realize that this problem is supposedly encountered by a small number of people but...even if the problem only affects 90% of the users, if you happen to be that unlucky 10%, though, it would suck like rocks through a straw. (worse - if you're one of the many frontline grunts trying to convince your boss that "Linux is better!") Coupled with the many "problems" (now, I don't mean to belittle others' problems with Venus but...sometimes, the problem looks worse than it really is.) that folks seem to be having...perhaps there will be a Mandrake 6.1 in the rather near future? (I understand there's a lot of stuff in /updates as well). But maybe we'll wait for XFree86 3.3.3.2? Or (gasp!) 4.0? How about KDE 2.0? ;-) Regards, -- -------------------------------------- Kuraiken - Apprentice Python Breeder --------------------------------------