Hello! I use Debian Woody on a i386 Linux box. I encountered that dired hangs after pressing "m" whenever the locales in /etc/profile are set to "de_DE" (yes, a German user) via "LC_ALL=de_DE; export LC_ALL". As soon as I set LC_TIME=C, dired works fine again. Cheers, Thomas strace xemacs -vanilla says: --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0 read(5, "\2:\17\7\5\264\"\31-\0\0\0&\0 \2\0\0\0\0\35\2\301\1\20"..., 32) = 32 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 gettimeofday({996854117, 384029}, NULL) = 0 brk(0x87d3000) = 0x87d3000 brk(0x87d4000) = 0x87d4000 brk(0x87d5000) = 0x87d5000 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [32]) = 0 read(5, "\3:\17\7I\264\"\31-\0\0\0&\0 \2\0\0\0\0\35\2\301\1\20\2"..., 32) = 32 ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 brk(0x87d6000) = 0x87d6000 [...] brk(0x87f2000) = 0x87f2000 write(5, "\2\1\4\0&\0 \2\0＠\0\0h\0 \2+\0\1\0", 20) = 20 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(5, "\1\2\21\7\0\0\0\0#\0 \2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\000"..., 32) = 32write(5, "\2\1\4\0&\0 \2\0＠\0\0f\0 \2+\0\1\0", 20) = 20 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(5, "\1\2\23\7\0\0\0\0#\0 \2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\000"..., 32) = 32ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 brk(0x87f3000) = 0x87f3000 [...] brk(0x884a000) = 0x884a000 write(5, "\2\1\4\0&\0 \2\0＠\0\0h\0 \2+\0\1\0", 20) = 20 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(5, "\1\2\25\7\0\0\0\0#\0 \2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\000"..., 32) = 32write(5, "\2\1\4\0&\0 \2\0＠\0\0f\0 \2+\0\1\0", 20) = 20 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) read(5, "\1\2\27\7\0\0\0\0#\0 \2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\000"..., 32) = 32ioctl(5, FIONREAD, [0]) = 0 write(5, "\2\1\4\0&\0 \2\0＠\0\0h\0 \2+\0\1\0", 20) = 20 --- SIGIO (I/O possible) --- [...] -- <http://www.korbernet.de> +++++++++++++++++++++ <mailto:thomas＠korbernet.de> Where's th' DAFFY DUCK EXHIBIT??