Hello, I noticed the following: I have my sofia.conf.xml like this: <configuration name="sofia.conf" description="sofia Endpoint"> <global_settings> <param name="log-level" value="0"/> <!-- <param name="auto-restart" value="false"/> --> <param name="debug-presence" value="0"/> </global_settings> <!-- The rabbit hole goes deep. This includes all the profiles in the sip_profiles directory that is up one level from this directory. <profiles> <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="include" data="../sip_profiles/*.xml" /> </profiles> --> </configuration> when I start FS, latest GIT: freeswitch -version FreeSWITCH version: 1.0.head (git-7e52acf 2011-03-28 22-18-47 -0500) I get the following output: ./freeswitch -waste WARNING: Wasting up to 8 megs of memory per thread. 2011-03-30 14:02:23.200097 [INFO] switch_event.c:615 Activate Eventing Engine. 2011-03-30 14:02:23.211052 [DEBUG] switch_event.c:594 Create event dispatch thread 0 Cannot Initialize [[error near line 1521]: unclosed <!--] If i then change my sofia to: <configuration name="sofia.conf" description="sofia Endpoint"> <global_settings> <param name="log-level" value="0"/> <!-- <param name="auto-restart" value="false"/> --> <param name="debug-presence" value="0"/> </global_settings> <!-- The rabbit hole goes deep. This includes all the profiles in the sip_profiles directory that is up one level from this directory. <profiles> </profiles> --> </configuration> Please note the absence of: <X-PRE-PROCESS cmd="include" data="../sip_profiles/*.xml" /> FS Starts normally! Is this the correct behaviour? Isn't comments supposed NOT to be read? Thanks all. David