I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm format. Before actually doing anything with them I went into the Linux chat room on yahoo and got some opinions on just what is the best way to do this. I was told to use Kpackage and force the install ontop of the previous version, which I did. Then I rebooted the machine and it will not come up to the normal gui logon screen. All I get is a gray screen and 'x' shaped mouse cursor, no icons, no task bar, no mouse right-click, nothing at all. I try alt-Feverythingkey and none of them work. I then am left with one option - ctrl-alt-bkspc. I get the screen with lots of text flying by and the last lines read as follows - /home/chip/.Xclients: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. /home/chip/.Xclients: exec: /home/chip/.Xclients-default: no such file or dir. And sure-enough, there is no .Xclients file to be found. So, what the heck do I do now? I am stuck using winblows on this machine, though I could use my firewall for this but prefer not to. I have quite a few apps and saved files in Linux on this one, so hopefully I can just fix this problem without reinstalling the whole OS. Please help, and thank you ahead of time for trying, Chip Wiegand
