Celia, The queue was corrupted on thelma. For future reference, if the ldm hangs on start up, try starting the ldm from the command line from LDM home directory. % bin/rpc.ldmd -vl - -q data/ldm.pq etc/ldmd.conf RObb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================