Oscar> According to Raymond: Oscar> The recipe: Oscar> xemacs -vanilla Oscar> A dialog box asks if I want to define a Search Base. Press No. Oscar> Crash! Oscar> In principle this procedure does not involve any call to the LDAP library. Oscar> LDAP is called only when you click on the `Query Server' button in the query Oscar> buffer. The crash happens before this buffer is even displayed. Well, there is a short pause between pressing No and the crash. I'll try to investigate further. It's really quite annoying. I didn't realize how often I actually used LDAP! Ray