A few days after running into this bug I upgraded my system, and I now use swap partitions instead of files. For the sake of anyone else who runs into this problem, I had 512 MB of RAM and a 1 GB swap file, /swap. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078