I had looked through the other emails and saw that someone else had a problem with KDE (subject of email "[newbie] Install of 9.1 has broken KDE") . I followed the advice presented there which was to edit the /etc/profile file and remove .kde/ folder, and run ldconfig. But I tried ldconfig again still nothing.
I get a splash screen for KDE 3.1 and it has 7 icons underneath it. It loads upto the second icon which is a wrench and it says "initializing system services" that's when it hangs and goes to a blue screen. doing some research I think it may be a hardware problem. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bobby Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE and Gnome hangs > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:20, Bobby Patel wrote: > > I did a fresh install of 9.1, and then I get prompted for a > > username/password and sesison type I would like to use. > > The sesison type choices are KDE, GNome, IceWm, failsafe, and defualt. The > > only things that work are failsafe and IceWm. When I try to login with KDE > > or Gnome, the cursor turns to a busy cursor and the background is the splash > > screen and I can hear the hardrive reading and writing, but this goes on for > > more than my patience (which is 20 mins). > > > > I went through IceWm and through the system configure tools and installed > > all packages under the Graphical Environment (KDE, GNOME) (45 MB in all) . > > But still the same problem. > > > > Any ideas? I'm totally new to installing linux, so I'm totally lost. > > Since this is a fresh install, I'm assuming you've set the system to > login via graphical mode instead of console mode - so you might want to > do a CTRL-ALT-F2 to get to a console login prompt - once you get there > and login as root, type: ldconfig at the prompt, then type: reboot > and after the system happily reboots/resets, try to login again. If you > can't get past that, then we'll attack another method...unless someone > wants to add their two cents...(or pence, or pfenning or whatever) > > -- > Tue Apr 1 17:55:00 EST 2003 > 17:55:00 up 11 days, 5:42, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.37, 0.32 > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > | __ __ | kuhn media australia | > | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | > | .\__/ || | | |=================================| > | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | > | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | > | ;"""/ / | | | | > | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | > | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting > machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** > > I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. > --- Calvin
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