Hi, there is a "bug" in kbd with the latest SL4 kernel. In fact it's more an ugly output when you login via a console, see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=172425 Could you please include kbd-1.12-2.el4.4 from SL45 into SL44,SL43,... which fixes this problem. Cheers, Urs