close out X, then 'mv ~/.kde ~/.kde_bak'. restart X and see if the problem persists. also try clearing out any files owned by you in /tmp, they can sometimes cause weird stuff like this following a dirty shutdown.
jason On Monday 12 July 2004 23:11, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > Folks, > > Very strange problem here. Mandrake 10.0 Official fully updated > under KDE. > > It seems that nearly every application that is part of KDE "crashes" > on exit. On loging in, I get a message from the KDE crash handler > about something like "kcminit crashed and caused the signal 11 > (SIGSEGV)" and then the same message about "ksplash". > > If I start konsole and then exit, it generates the same message about > konsole. The same thing happens with kedit, konqueror, etc. All of > these programs work fine, but when I exit, they generate this > annoying error. You can imagine that when I log off, it generates a > barrage of errors messages. > > Non-KDE apps work great and do not generate this error. Any ideas on > what's going on? I imagine it's something simple. > > Thanks, > > Michael -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
