Hi Dieter I know you said it again and again but as long as nobody can say WHY it works on some and not on all boxes the verdict is still the same! Then it's prure luck. I mean if you had a production Solaris box out there and would have to install (e.g.) Solaris 2.9 and not know whether it would work afterwards how would you feel? Knowing, that there is no answer to whats happening anywhere if it goes wrong?! I have two Suns serviced by two different companies with different hardware with different Solaris versions with the SAME problems! That doesn't look good at all for the Solaris-Zope-Python installation. Now if your Solaris works then please solve the puzzle! I know that I can't and that wasn't for lack of trying. Regards Oliver Erlewein -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net