changed distributions, kernel not working..

Thanks for the replies... I can't just switch to Fedora because I don't know that much about the distro, and it's my server so i need to be able to administer it well. Ubuntu isn't much different than debian, so I'm familiar with that.

Anyway, I reinstalled it with the 32-bit kernel instead of the 64, and it worked, so it must be related somehow. I don't think the problem is with running 32-bit executables; as you said, you can do that through an emulation layer... most of the executables i was using were for 32-bit machines. But something to do with GCC and the toolchain build is where it goes wrong... I did some reading, and there are definitely some things to watch out for. But if you have it working on a 64-bit machine, then it could possibly be some setup issue, just not sure what.

I don't need the performance of 64-bit (Im' not really convinced it's much better anyway), so the 32-bit kernel is fine.

Hippo, why do you think that UBuntu is not targeted for a dev environment? There are two modes of installation, user and server. User is very 'mandrake' like... nice interface, installs everything you could imagine... but server is a lot better, and the packages make it much easier. Just curious to see what's wrong with it...

J