Dear Martijn, dear all, sorry for getting involved only so late, but I was too busy with others "things" (sometimes called "work" ;-)) ... Anyway, I just downloaded the MonetDB-4.8.0.tar.gz, extracted it, made BUILD directory, cd'ed to it and ran .../configure --prefix=<MyPrefix> && make && make check where <MyPrefix> is not "/usr" or "/usr/local", but rather a new directory, and that works fine. Then, I re-tried (from newly extracted sources) .../configure && make && make check i.e., using the default prefix "/usr"; make worked fine, but make check immediately killed my desktop ;-) The problem is/was a small tool called "MkillUsers" that come with MonetDB to support Mtest (details on request; they don't matter here...). I just fixed "src/testing/MkillUsers.in" to be less "stupid", and now .../configure && make && make check from the MonetDB-4.8.0.tar.gz works fine for me. We will eventually provide a new source tarball with a bugfix release; for now, just patch your "src/testing/MkillUsers.in" with the attached patch file, i.e., cd MonetDB-4.8.0 patch src/testing/MkillUsers.in < MkillUsers.in.patch Please try again, and let us know, whether it also works for you, now. Note: There seems to be some other problem that appears to be related to the "at" command --- I cannot reproduce it my self, and hence don't know, whether my fix above does solve it. I'll try to investigate this further, and find a solution or work-around. Regards, Stefan -- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |