I am experiencing the same problem. I can start KDE from the console, but not from KDM. It hangs at the kcminit phase for me as well. It did work until I was playing with my screen saver, which for some reason crashed X completely. After that I started having this hang. I changed the screen saver back thinking that has something to do with the problem, but this had no effect. Any thoughts on this are much welcomed. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Ti Kan [mailto:ti@amb.org] Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2004 6:24 PM To: suse-kde@suse.com; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [suse-kde] KDE login hang again KDE 3.3.0 on SuSE 9.1 here. I am experiencing a hang at the splash screen again after logging in to KDE. This time, I've done a bit of debugging and found that the culprit is kcminit. In the /opt/kde3/bin/startkde script, there is a line: LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify If I change this line to skip kcminit as follows, then I can log in just fine: LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +knotify Manually running "kdeinit +kcminit" in a kconsole window shows a bunch of messages, and I confirmed that it does not complete and return to the shell prompt. I have to ctrl-C to abort it. So, 2 questions: 1. Just what does kcminit do? I don't seem to have lost any obvious functionality without it? 2. Why might kcminit be hanging on my machine? -Ti -- To unsubscribe, email: suse-kde-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, email: suse-kde-help@suse.com Please do not cross-post to suse-linux-e