On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Eli Wapniarski <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote: Thanks for your detailed response. It turns out I was missing the kdebase-workspace package... somehow. I didn't do anything special with this machine, just a yum updated. It may be a problem with yum itself. According to yum.log, the following packages were updated along with my other packages: kdebase-workspace-libs-4.2.0-8.fc9.i386 kdebase-workspace-devel-4.2.0-8.fc9.i386 kdebase-workspace-4.2.0-8.fc9.i386 Yet I had to do a `yum install kdebase-workspace` to get back to a working condition -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )