I apologize if this has been answered many times before. I'm an extreme
newbie (and at my age linux seems a very steep learning curve) so please be
patient with me.
I was installing several programs in rpm format under KDE. Everything was
find until I tried to install StarOffice 5.2 . Then the dragon showed up
with a message saying I had an error. I tried it once more with the same
result. Later when I tried to start linux everything stopped at the console
(the part where the asci penguin appears). I managed to log in as root and
found out I had kernal panic and a segmentation fault. So I reinstalled.
Now I can log in as root but as nothing else. I've tried deleting home
directories, removing and re-adding users, to no avail. I apologize for any
idiocy, but what can I do about this? Thank you for any help.
Michele Kerby
