I've never seen this before, and now i've seen it twice in one day, on two different hamm systems: eyryttyp4:mm>xxgdb /usr/src/lyx0_12/src/lyx.12 /dev/ttyp7: Permission denied this time, it let me launch again successfully. previously, i had to putz around a bit. I'm also getting really strange behavior from xxgdb on the other machine--denying that variables exist, claiming that structures passed to a function are in a register . . . --