Further to my problems as mentioned in my earlier mail wrt kernel paging request, I am suddenly unable to start X windows. I am getting the following errors. ------------------------ <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 09691f73 printing eip: c012bfdc *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c012bfdc>] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: c02b015c ebx: c1371fec ecx: 0000000b edx: 09691f73 esi: ccfb7740 edi: ccfb77f8 ebp: 00000000 esp: cb961efc ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process xauth (pid: 1395, stackpage=cb961000) Stack: c1371fec c012c0ca c1371fec c0126e56 c1371fec 00001000 cf771134 00000001 -----------------------------

These lines are also found in the error messages ----

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 100: 1475 Segmentation fault xauth add $display

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 103: 1479 Segmentation fault xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs

/usr/X11R6/bin/startx: line 107: 1480 Segmentation fault xauth remove $removelist --------------------------------------------

Please help !!!! I really am desperate :-(

thanks,

Sharukh.