I finally have KDE running again. Last March, I inadvertently updated libc and lots of things broke. I had to update my Nvidia drivers to get X11 to run but then KDE would not start. Currently, I'm running kernel 2.4.25 and Nvidia 1.0-5336 libc is glibc-2.3.2.ds1-13. Everything else is pretty recent from unstable. I think the problem is in the loader (ld-linux-ia64.so) but I don't know the interface spec well enough to be sure. libGL.so from Nvidia has a tls section with mem size 0x40 but a file size of 0. When the loader processes this, the tls region is left unusable.
Anyway, I now have a work around. Richard Harke
