I just did an install of FC6+xen, and I''m not sure if xen is involved in the problem or not. After I did the initial install and rebooted, I checked the list of updates yum check-update | tee update.list and found updates for the kernel, yum, and virt-manager. Doing the updates cautiously (I have been seeing upgrade problems), I got: Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/1): virt-manager-0.2.6 100% |=========================| 452 kB 00:02 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Failed to load file "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree-nl.xml": Error on line 7519 char 29: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text Failed to load file "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree-hu.xml": Line 1557 character 50: No text is allowed inside element <dir> Failed to load file "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree-ja.xml": Error on line 6767 char 77: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text Failed to load file "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree-gu.xml": Error on line 4460 char 80: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text Failed to load file "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree-ru.xml": Error on line 4134 char 51: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text Failed to load file "/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree-es.xml": Error on line 8160 char 5: Invalid UTF-8 encoded text Updating : virt-manager ######################### [1/2] Cleanup : virt-manager ######################### [2/2] Updated: virt-manager.x86_64 0:0.2.6-1.fc6 Complete! Is this meaningless, or a hint that something else is wrong? -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO TMR Associates, Inc Unsigned numbers may not be negative. However, unsigned numbers may be less than zero for sufficiently large values of zero.