Several days ago I lost my Desktop after the zmd updater had a hernia and didn't complete updates. (This was the subject of another thread.) I got my Desktop back yesterday after I installed the latest KDE 3.5.3 RPMs. However, what occurs now is that I get an error message on login, "KDE Daemon - The KDE Crash Handler. The application KDE Daemon (kded) crashed and caused the signal (SIGABRT)". Closing this msg box allows the OS to continue, but..... if I insert a CD or a DVD I do not get the autostart drop-down menu as I did before and the CD or DVD does not appear as an entry under My Computer; in the My Computer menu the entries for /media/floppy, /media/dvd, and /media/dvdram all show that each has a capacity of 32.03GB with 23.04GB free; inserting a flash disc also does not produce and entry under My Computer; even though no entry appears under My Computer for a *music* CD or a video DVD both are playable thru either the media player or xine (DVD); going to a terminal and using mc (Midnight Commander), no entries appear for the CD or DVD or the flash disk; trying to run kded from the command line fails; I did something (which I don't remember :-) ) and received the error message, "kde mediamanager not running". I created a new, dummy, user and a login as this new user - and even as root - does not produce this problem: the autostart box appears and My Computer shows the entry for the just insterted CD or DVD or flash disk. The problem only shows up for me as the original user when the system was first installed. I guess that the problem lies with some leftover garbage in my /home to do with /.kde or somewhere else. Does anyone know what I would need to delete (some control file, log file or whatever) so that I can back to the "good ol' times" when I could see the entries for CD, DVD, flash disk? I need to install some software from a CD but as I cannot see its contents using Konqueror or mc I am "grounded" :-( . Any suggestions re this hassle most welcome. Cheers. -- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king". Desiderius Erasmus -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com