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