On Tuesday 07 September 2004 03:37 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: > 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? uhm.. may sound quite silly, but look if there's a hostname in your /etc/hostname ;-) I had no hostname in it (how did that happen??), and the result was the same behaviour as on your system. good luck, gregor ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.