Sorry, but it's been a long weekend. I built and installed "Irish Goat" with no significant problems. I sent in the build report (though I fear it may never have left my system) and thought all was fairly well. This morning I went out to update all of my packages, but it would not do so. I was using Options->Customize->Update Packages menu to do this. It's worked in the past, but not today. I get the following: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Did I miss something somewhere or is something broken? R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman(a)es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634