One thing I hate about Linux is that sometimes you are forced to find things out for yourself .... :-) This post is just in case anyone else has the same problem. Taking my life in my hands, I renamed /home/kevin/.kde2 to /home/kevin/.kde2.old, and logged out of and back in to KDE. The default KDE theme was enabled, so I changed that back to the SuSE one by going to K > Preferences > SuSE Desktop > select theme. Launching Konqueror as browser or filemanager showed no memory-eating problems - hooray! I copied over some folders (eg the kmail and knode folders) from .kde2.old/share/apps to the equivalent place in .kde2, and also some config files (eg kmailrc) from .kde2.old/share/config. So all's well that ends well. Kevin On Tuesday 21 August 2001 00:34, Kevin Donnelly wrote:

Help! For some reason today my PC locked up hard, and only a reboot would help. I had just installed TrueType fonts yesterday, and was using SSH when the lockup happened, but I don't really think either of those could have had anything to do with it.

After some investigation, the problem seems to be that Konqueror, as either browser or file-manager, goes into some sort of loop in which it never loads, and just eats up all the memory, swap, CPU etc until the PC hangs.

What is the best way to deal with this, short of a reinstall? Is it worth trying to uninstall kdebase via YAST, and then reinstall it? And should I try to do this from a CTRL-ALT-F2 type console, or would it be better to boot into runlevel 2 at startup?

Any words of wisdom gratefully received!

Kevin