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Kevin, I'm on Striker2 and poking around. The regutil(1) utility crashes when it tries to malloc(3) 12 bytes: $ pwd /home/ldmnldn/ldm-6.9.7/src/regutil $ ./regutil -c -d ~/etc Segmentation Fault (core dumped) $ ../libtool --mode=execute /opt/SUNWspro/bin/dbx regutil core For information about new features see `help changes' To remove this message, put `dbxenv suppress_startup_message 7.5' in your .dbxrc Reading regutil core file header read successfully Reading ld.so.1 Reading libldm.so.0 Reading libxml2.so.2 Reading libdl.so.1 Reading libm.so.1 Reading libnsl.so.1 Reading libsocket.so.1 Reading libc.so.1 Reading libmp.so.2 Reading libc_psr.so.1 program terminated by signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address) 0xff04237c: realfree+0x0070: ld [%i0 + 8], %o2 (dbx) where =>[1] realfree(0x72abdb28, 0xff0c2848, 0xff0bc000, 0xff3e07a8, 0x73747279, 0xff3768b8), at 0xff04237c [2] cleanfree(0x0, 0xff0bc000, 0xff0c27bc, 0xff0c283c, 0xff0c27bc, 0x0), at 0xff042c80 [3] _malloc_unlocked(0xc, 0x7a374, 0xff0bc000, 0x10, 0x22094, 0x0), at 0xff041db4 [4] malloc(0xc, 0x17a, 0xff3e3540, 0xff3e07a8, 0x0, 0x1), at 0xff041ca8 [5] reg_malloc(0xc, 0xffbef218, 0xff3e3540, 0xff3e07a8, 0x0, 0x1), at 0xff345f7c [6] sb_new(0xff3822b4, 0x50, 0xff3e3540, 0xff3e07a8, 0x0, 0x5), at 0xff34ace8 [7] initRegistry(0x1, 0xff0bc000, 0xff3768b8, 0xff0bc000, 0x0, 0x0), at 0xff348e1c [8] reg_getNode(0x12514, 0xffbef368, 0x1, 0x0, 0x0, 0xff349ba8), at 0xff34a290 [9] createRegistry(0xffffffff, 0xffbef474, 0xff0bec60, 0xff0bc000, 0x22de4, 0x12788), at 0x116d4 [10] main(0x4, 0xffbef474, 0xffbef488, 0xffbef63e, 0x1, 0x0), at 0x11eec (dbx) This indicates a serious problem with your runtime environment. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: WSU-931209 Department: Support LDM Priority: Normal Status: Closed