Hoi Ric, I have your tag: iris01>cvs diff -r rf-100902b *.*cc recoilNtp.hh cvs diff: I know nothing about recoilDSysDict.cc cvs diff: I know nothing about recoilNtpDict.cc I make everything from scratch: iris01>gmake -f Makefile clean anaRecoil It compiles and links just fine, I run it iris01>../bin/Linux24/anaRecoil -c chains/sx-test -y 2 -D . Much output snipped: ./sx-test.root Opened ./sx-test.root *** Break *** segmentation violation Abort gdb shows: (gdb) where #0 0x40fc0091 in recoilNtp::doSplitOffStudy (this=0xbffa867c, book=true) at splitOff.icc:49 #1 0x40fcea3e in recoilNtp::bookHist (this=0xbffa867c, dump=0) at bookHist.icc:305 #2 0x0804d79e in main (argc=7, argv=0xbffff124) at anaRecoil.cc:192 #3 0x4116d647 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804bcf4 <main>, argc=7, ubp_av=0xbffff124, init=0x804b4bc <_init>, fini=0x8063b04 <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000dcd4 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff11c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 (gdb) print book $1 = true The problem is that *because* you have a flag to protect the booking, the crucial return from doSplitOffStudy when called from bookHist is not encountered. This screws Linux24. I found this out yesterday night. I fixed it (the hard way), but you did not like my fix. So, please provide a tag where we can run without getting debugging trees and histograms for the splitoff study. ASAP. Else I don't think we'll have enough time to digest the plots for Friday. Cheers, --U.