On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:14, tim at thewunders.org wrote: > I'd switch to runlevel 3 and try to log in as my user. If that works, run > 'startx' from the command line. Yes, tried that. Unfortunately, the same thing happens. *Something* that kde saves when it shuts down is causing this. I've created a new user and copied .kde across, then changed ownership. It has just completed the start of kde, but I now have 20 'run as anne' boxes waiting for passwords. Hopefully as I go through these I will find where the blockage is. Anne