I "fixed" this issue by reinstalling tzdata 2007e-3, which set the timezone to "Africa/Abidjan" (the timezone was "none" before that). I then upgraded to 2007e-6 without a problem. There was never such an issue before that, I suspect that 2007e-6 introduced some change that renders it incompatible with setups (such as chroots) with no timezone set. HTH T-Bone -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/