I just did an aptitude safe-upgrade and aptitude just went ahead and did it, instead of showing the list of packages it wanted to add/update/remove and asking permission. This appears to be new behaviour. Is it a change of specs? Or has some configuration been damaged? I have to take special precautions every time a kernel is updated, because grub always seems to match up my kernels and root partitions wrong unless I hand-edit menu.lst. -- hendrik