Argh, sorry to answer my own post - I'd recently migrated my installation to another hard drive and I didn't run makedev to fix the /dev special files; for some reason once I did that, XEmacs started to work fine... I have no idea why... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .