KDE crashing constantly

Ryan Mesler yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat Apr 20 11:09:01 2002


delete your /Desktop folder and rerun KDE and have KDE rebuild it from
scratch. downside is you'd lose all your settings, so back up anything you
want to keep. other than that... i dunno.

Ryan Mesler
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Alan Burch" <scottb@accom.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 12:05 PM
Subject: KDE crashing constantly


>
> I was adjusting some preferences in KDE after freshly installing 2.2 on a
> 9500 with a G3 375mhz upgrade installed, 300+ MB RAM, and an ATI Mach64
card.
>
> The preferences -- specifically the one where you can make KDE look like
> SGI -- I applied locked my computer up solid. I did a hard reboot from the
> keyboard and launched KDE from a text log-in as user and --- immediately
> got a bomb message that the splash screen app had crashed --- and then got
> a succession of crash messages: KCMInit, then ksplash, then kicker, then
> alarmd.
>
> Then the Yellow Dog wallpaper loads for a split second and then crashes,
> reloads then crashes, in that cycle indefinitely until I kill the X
server.
>
> What should I do here?
>
> thanks ## scott
>
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