Nevermind.... the segfault wasn't caused by the corba layer but by a buggy library I was using in the servant :-) enri -- Enrico Sirola <enri@users.sourceforge.net> gpg public key available from wwwkeys.pgp.net Key fingerprint = B446 7332 ED55 BC68 5FE8 DE0F 98DF EC86 377F E07F