Justin Denick wrote: > There may be some stale lock file in the /tmp or in the /var/lock dir. > > You would be able to see them better by trying to start kde from the CLI > > Hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a command prompt, and then type startkde and see > what happens That's a good approach, although you'll need "startx" rather than "startkde". Another thing would be to try with a newly-created user, which would also tell you whether there was some stale config or lock lying around. Regards, Philip -- KDE Documentation Team: http://i18n.kde.org/doc KDE Documentation Online: http://docs.kde.org ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.