>this upgrade broke my login with kdm and startx as well on reboot >/var/log/messages that may be pertanant No it didn't, it just split kdm out as a seperate package. Try the new Mandrake KDM urpmi mdkkdm or the original KDM urpmi kdm Gregory K. Meyer
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