Jan> Raymond Toy <toy(a)rtp.ericsson.se&gt; writes: Jan> Not for me... Shoot. My mistake. Instead of evaluating (load-library ...), do M-x load-library RET eudc-export. When it asks to configure the search base, press n. This crashes xemacs repeatably for me. Does this recipe work for you? Jan> You need to eliminate some stuff. Please rename your eudc-options. Jan> Then M-x load-file RET it in a "xemacs -vanilla", does that crash? No Jan> What if you simply do a Jan> (eudc-set-server "mbb1.ericsson.se" 'ldap t) Asks to configure search-base then returns NIL. No crash. Jan> in the *scratch* buffer without loading anything (and without options file). Jan> What does M-x load-library RET eudc RET followed by M-x disassemble Jan> RET eudc-set-server RET give? byte code for eudc-set-server: doc: Set the directory server to SERVER using PROTOCOL. ... args: (server protocol &optional no-save) interactive: (list (read-from-minibuffer "Directory Server: ") (intern (completing-read "Protocol: " (mapcar (quote (lambda (elt) (cons (symbol-name elt) elt))) eudc-known-protocols)))) 0 varref protocol 1 varref eudc-supported-protocols 2 member 3 goto-if-not-nil 1 5 constant load 6 constant "eudc-bck-" 7 constant symbol-name 8 varref protocol 9 call 1 10 concat2 11 constant t 12 call 2 13 goto-if-not-nil 1 15 constant error 16 constant "Unsupported protocol: %s" 17 varref protocol 18 call 2 19 discard 20:1 constant run-hooks 21 constant eudc-switch-from-server-hook 22 call 1 23 discard 24 varref protocol 25 varset eudc-protocol 27 varref server 29 varset eudc-server 31 constant eudc-update-local-variables 32 call 0 33 discard 34 constant run-hooks 35 constant eudc-switch-to-server-hook 36 call 1 37 discard 38 interactive-p 39 goto-if-nil 2 41 constant message 42 constant "Current directory server is now %s (%s)" 43 varref eudc-server 45 varref eudc-protocol 47 call 3 48 discard 49:2 varref no-save 51 not 52 goto-if-nil-else-pop 3 54 constant eudc-save-options 55 call 0 56:3 return Note that if I try any of the above suggestions (except eudc-set-server) WITH an .eudc-options file, I get a crash. Hope this helps, Ray