Checking my .xsession-errors, i have noticed: (...) Xsession: X session started for pol at Wed Aug 3 06:55:04 CEST 2005 xset: bad font path element (#69), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... kded: KDEDKMLDonkey::KDEDKMLDonkey("kmldonkeyd") kded: Listening on 127.0.0.1 port 37435 kded: KDEDKMLDonkey initialised. kcminit: ERROR: Shared memory segment size mismatch libhal.c 767 : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceDoesNotExist raised "Service "org.freedesktop.Hal" does not exist" Will you please help me to understand the meaning of the line 'kcminit:...' ? thank you --pol ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.