i recently installed Suse 9.0 on my machine, and things were running fine. Then i decided to update the KDE, which i did and that went relatively smooth. Now just the other day, i did Suse's online update. and pretty much updated everything. it seemed to do it without a problem, but apparently it did mess up something, because next time when i started the computer, I got a message on small window on the top left corner "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation" the screen was light gray. clicked on OK and it took me out to the linux non Xwindow shell interface. (what is that called, command line interface?) The error it had spat out which I thought relative, I have typed below. I am still a fairly novice linux user so am stumped as to what caused this. Output----------- Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation (WW) i810(0): Failed to setup write-combining range (--some funky number here --) Could not init font path element /usrX11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usrX11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usrX11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list! xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax xset: bad font path element (#63), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax ksplash: relocation error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so.4: undefined symbol: kdeinit: relocation error: /opt/kde3/lib/libkdeui.so.4: undefined symbol: ---- End output any help would be appreciated. Thanks Poorav _________________________________________________________________ Get rid of annoying pop-up ads with the new MSN Toolbar FREE! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200414ave/direct/01/