This probably should be a normal bug, but it can technically be prevented. When loading any file into ghex, it will load the entire file into memory. When the file is any larger than physical RAM + swap, it can be impossible to kill ghex while it's loading under a standard Linux 2.4 kernel, until the kernel comes and kills the process itself. Even when the file is not bigger than available RAM, loading the entire file into memory is rarely a good thing. - -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux darth 2.4.21-rc1 #1 Sat Apr 26 12:54:20 EDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages ghex depends on: ii bonobo-activation 1:2.2.1.1-2 Bonobo Activation Framework ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.12-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.2.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 The Audiofile Library ii libbonobo-activation4 1:2.2.1.1-2 Bonobo Activation Framework -- run ii libbonobo2-0 2.2.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.2.0.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libfontconfig1 2.2.0-2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.4-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgail-common 1.2.2-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgail17 1.2.2-1 GNOME Accessibility Implementation ii libgconf2-4 2.2.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt1 1.1.12-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 2.0.1-3 Library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.1-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome2-0 2.2.0.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.2.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeprint2.2-0 2.2.1.2-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprintui2.2-0 2.2.1.2-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture U ii libgnomeui-0 2.2.0.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.2.3-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls5 0.8.6-4 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.1-6 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libjpeg62 6b-7 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liblinc1 1:1.1.0-1 library to simplify creating netwo ii liborbit2 1:2.6.1-2 Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.1-3 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.6.4-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libtasn1-0 0.1.2-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libxml2 2.5.6-2 GNOME XML library ii xlibs 4.3.0-0ds4 X Window System client libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-11 compression library - runtime - -- no debconf information iD8DBQE+0s17wO+u47cOQDsRAitCAJ4ntL0GY9fOPWuby6sMR+2YJZcIswCfeeBk Rey5Sl5jXF3LyINl6aMFPGc= =4ETL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----