On Monday 21 December 2009 16:09:47 Martin Kho wrote: > > > Half of me wants to go on fighting this - it's always good to learn - and > > the other half says that I should stop wasting time and either try a > > clean install or go back to F11. > > Well I couldn't put off the decision for ever, so I checked with the Live CD - no problem. Then I tried to use to DVD to rescue the new install - nothing doing. Finally, I decided I can't really spare any more time, so I reformatted / and reinstalled. I'm back into the laptop, and it just remains to check that everything is configured correctly. (pinentry, for instance, doesn't seem to be working at the moment). Thanks to all who tried to help. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE SC4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org