>> Hello. I have KDE 3.2, under Debian testing/unstable. I wiped clean my >> previous installation of KDE 3.1 (apt-get --purge, rm -rf /etc/kde3) and >> reinstalled from the .deb's at download.kde.org. > > You do realize, don't you, that you installed woody backports of KDE 3.2 > which were built with gcc 2.95, and so are incompatible with your qt and > all other c++ packages from testing/unstable. > > This might be the cause of your problems.
Thank you. I removed the packages for stable, and installed the packages for unstable. Most (though not quite all) of my KDE problems have been solved, including the dreaded "Could not start kdeinit." I just love my new KDE desktop.