I was able to make world and new kernels early this morning for the first time since Sunday. I immediately rebooted my laptop, from behind the firewall, and got a softupdates panic while coming up. So, I rebooted with Sunday's kernel, also with softupdates, and it came up fine. The strange part is that a password is no longer needed to login in. I've never seen this before, except some time ago when a space before root would cause something similar, if I remember correctly. It is looking at the password file because it won't accept a user who isn't listed. Any ideas, what could have happened? Thanks, ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message