Not much. Here's the entire .xsession-error file from root's attempt. ====================== den2:~ # cat .xsession-errors iceauth: creating new authority file /root/.ICEauthority DCOPServer up and running. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-1431' to 'kinternet' ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 7 (X_ReparentWindow) Resource id in failed request: 0x1e00011 Serial number of failed request: 49642 Current serial number in output stream: 49731 kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 11 object references alive. - Arts::SampleStorage - Arts::Synth_MULTI_ADD - Arts::Synth_MULTI_ADD - Arts::Synth_PLAY - Arts::StereoVolumeControl - Arts::StereoEffectStack - Arts::Synth_BUS_DOWNLINK - Arts::SoundServerV2 - Arts::WavPlayObject - Arts::Synth_BUS_UPLINK - Arts::MidiManager warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 112 types alive. KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 1430, errno = 0 kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. kdeinit: Exit. ==================== JimW John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 August 2002 08:30 pm, Jim Westbrook wrote:
The instant the mouse pointer touched an icon on the desktop - the entire desktop crashed. The only exit at that point was Ctrl-Alt-Bkspc to kill the X server. This was true on all four systems, for all users including root.
Surely there must be more to go on than that... Anything in the Xserver logs or any of the other logs?