Hopeing that this one will fix the problem I just had with kdm... I re-did urpmi.update and grabed more..... During install of the packages I got
Preparing... ################################################## 1:xinitrc ################################################## 2:kdebase-kdm ################################################## 3:kdebase ################################################## Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 1. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 2. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 6. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 1. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 2. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 4. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected end of string) at -e line 1, <> line 6. 4:kdebase-nsplugins ################################################## 5:kdebase-devel ################################################## I've no idea what I did wrong.... But if you give me a bit more than a hint I would hope it's correctable. James