sb> SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: sb> Adrian, try this instead. Start xemacs -vanilla, then load I had to do this on my office machine, that's why it took me a little longer. Under Solaris2.5.1 with CDE I started xemacs -vanilla (emacs-version "21.0 \"Corsican\" XEmacs Lucid") and then evaluated the following sexps in *scratch* one after the other. (setq debug-on-error t) (setq debug-on-quit t) (load-library "x-win-sun.el") (load-library "dired") The bug COULD NOT be reproduced. I'll keep you posted. Adrian sb> x-win-sun.el and then load dired. Does this beep? Hopefully this sb> will give a more detailed backtrace. -- Adrian Aichner Applications Engineer Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com