Rob, Just a guess: before you "startx", do a
rm -f .DCOPserver* and then "startx". KDE fails to load for me about once a week. This always fixes the problem for me. Miark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin Regennitter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:48 PM Subject: [newbie] KDE Died (The Blue Screen of Death)..... why? > for the 2nd time since I have installed mandrake 8.1, kde fails to > loads. I see the box and it stalls on the mechanical icon and it just > wont go to the next icon which is the keyboard and mouse icon. then it > just disappear and the only thing I see is a solid light blue color on > the screen. no taskbar, no icons, nothing works. sadly I had to > switch to gnome which I really dont like. The first time, there seems > to be no hope on having kde back especially with my user name. KDE > works in root or other username. Maybe I just have too many things in > my home directory that it causes KDE to corrupt only in that directory. > I had to create a new username and copy all the stuff I had saved and > do more works as I had done with this one. works fine for the next > month or two then I get this blue screen again. There a dead serious > bug somewhere that causes this. Has anyone experienced this? If so do > know why it did this and what is the solution to prevent it from > happening again? Any help would be appreciate. > > Rob > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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