Hi Glenn,
> I've seen this problem with KDE under Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1 (i.e., several
> versions of KDE). It would be really nice if KDE would delete or
> re-create any files it needs during startup. Anyway, I've found that
> deleting several KDE related files cures the problem.
>
> I've put this into my startup script (viz., /etc/rc.d/rc.local):
>
> # Remove KDE files that might cause hangup during KDE startup
> rm -rf /tmp/{dcop*,kde*,ksocket*,mcop*}
> USERS='er aoi'
> for d in $USERS ; do
> if [ -d /home/$d ] ; then
> rm -rf /home/$d/{.DCOP*,.ICE*,.mcop*,.MCOP*}
> fi
> done
>
> These seem to all be working files for KDE, and deleting them doesn't
> cause your configuration to be changed, as deleting ~/.kde would.
I tried what you suggested and now I boot into KDE again. 8) Thanks.
Regards,
Norman
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