I am shutting down my Suse 7.3 regularly because I run also Drdos programs. At booting Suse I like to get in the console. When I want to start KDE I have sometimes problems with the KDE desktop. After the KDE little screen shows up, the several parts start in good order until close before the music should start. At that point I get my screen background but no menu's at all. If I kill the little screen I have an empty desktop. Nothing will go. I can go to an alternative (Alt F2) screen and log there in as root or any user. I expected that that would give me the possibility to shutdown Suse but ctrl alt del and shutdown -r now will only show the message that the system will close down and there it remains. What could be the cause of this? In some cases I can restart Suse and have my KDE without problems, sometimes it takes two or three restarts. I found a lot of temporary files in the tmp directory with the following content: remove protoname=ICE protodata="" netid=local/big_one:/tmp/.ICE-unix/907 authname=MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 remove protoname=DCOP protodata="" netid=local/big_one:/tmp/.ICE-unix/907 authname=MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Has this something to do with my problem and if so, what action do I take? It sounds outlandish to me ;-(