On Tuesday 07 September 2004 19:37, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Hi > > I recently went through having to uninstall [ rpm -e ] kdelib~ and > kdebase and then re-install [ urpmi ] because of a 'kdeinit' problem I > had whilst attempting to update these packages having read a Mandrake > security alert. ( I'm back in kde-3.2.3 from the distro disc's ) > > Now I'm not convinced it is entirely KDE, but since then I have time to > go make a coffee whenever I attempt to open any apps. Anything at all! > > I'm running a PIII 733hz 512RAM system and things ran fine before. > > Any ideas where I should start looking? It could be a problem with network name lookup - try putting an entry for your own computer in /etc/hosts ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.