Apologies if this is a duplicate, but I sent it more than 6 hours ago and haven't seen it arrive yet. I have Mandriva 2008.1 with KDE4 on two laptops. One functions perfectly. The second one is giving me big problem. When I installed, everything looked absolutely fine. I added a few launchers to the panel and made a few changes in System Settings. Still OK. I then opened two spreadsheets in OpenOffice. One closed correctly, the other crashed, and wouldn't close. I then tried an End Session, which got to a blank screen with a cursor in the top left-hand corner. Since then, the panel does not show when I log in. I can restore it by right-clicking where it should be, and changing the size. Sometimes the Run Command brings up only a shadow, though that seems to rectify itself after a while. Asking for a reboot brings up a black and white patch with no text. Clicking on the right area starts the shutdown, but gets to the black screen + cursor, and I have to CtrlAltDel after which it reboots. Obviously something is either missing or corrupted. Any advice? Anne ___________________________________________________ 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.