Dear All I'm running SuSE 8.1 and last week I upgraded to KDE3.2.1 using synaptic. Everything went just fine until the last few packages when synaptic seemed to get itself into a loop. The kernel closed the system down and rebooted. When the system came up again I could not log in as user. (This was user area from which I did the upgrade calling root of course). The log in screen just disappeared and then returned - kde never started. However, I discovered I could log in as root and as any of the other users on the system. Furthermore I could log in to my user area via the nxserver I have installed and I could also login I did a "start new session". It seems that I can log into display 1 but not display 0 (?). After the reboot there were some problems with the rpm database - I guess because synaptic did not exist cleanly. However, I was able to fix this up and it all seems fine now. (But maybe there are somethign which are not installed fully or correctly -even though yast2 and synaptic do not report any problems. In the initial login screen there is a message saying 'linux ksm-greet [2059]: can't open default user face' This message is new since upgrading to kde3.2.1. Any ideas about what could be wrong or what I can do to fix this up? Thanks for help. Best regards John -- Dr J. Satherley Department of Chemistry University of Liverpool Liverpool Merseyside L69 7ZD United Kingdom Phone: +44 (0) 151 794 3530 Fax: +44 (0) 151 794 3588 Email: js1@liverpool.ac.uk