I have upgraded my Slackware Installation from 13.1 to 13.37. This means that my KDE has gone from 4.4.3 to 4.5.5. The same process worked fine on two other PCs, but on this (my main Desktop machine) I cannot get KDE up and running for a regular user. KDE starts OK for root, but for myself and for a newly created user, I see the splash screen and then four of the five splash icons come into focus. The last one never gets there and disk activity eventually ceases (I have left it for more than 30 mins). I have tried renaming the .kde folder and the .kderc file, but this has not helped. I can only stop the failed KDE session with ctrl-alt-BS which returns me to the terminal from which I tried to launch KDE with the startx command. On that terminal I see various error messages from akonadi. If this is the cause of the trouble, what is the solution ? I notice that when KDE does launch successfully (for root) there is a progress bar displayed also connected with the akonadi server starting up - presumably successfully in that case. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks ___________________________________________________ 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.