On Tuesday 12 August 2003 02:05 pm, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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Same problem so that I am now so far as to do what every Windoows user does daily. I will tomorrow night reinstall my 8.2 complete unless you have still other ideas, leaving only my home directory untouched. Must be something very persistent which is causing me problems with KDE. Thanks for your assistance. ==================

Do you get to the login screen ok or do your problems begin before that? From what I remember of past mails, it is just when KDE is booting up and going thru it's initialization process that it hangs?

If it begins only after logging in KDE, then try going to your message console, Ctrl-Alt-F10, to see if you can catch an error there as KDE attempts to boot.

Pat The last idea starts to give some useful information. Ctrl-Alt-F10 first showed me that there could be something wrong with the hauppage tv card because the system hanged after showing it was working on the card. After disabling the card though it still hangs after giving several lines of information. I wrote them all down from where I uninstalled the TV card because I hope somewhere in there the cause of my problem may show. Perhaps you or somebody else can help me further with the meaning of these lines. --------------------------- Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4#1 Fri Jul 11 07:33:18 UTC 2003 CPU 0 EIP 0010 [<c0116300>] not tainted EFLAGS: 00010082 eax: 4084876b ebx: 400144a0 ecx: 4084876b edx: 00000018 esi: 0000005f edi: 407c177c edp: bfffef28 esp: cbcf9fb4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process kdeinit (pid:1766,stackpage =cbcf9000) Stack: c010d46a 400144a0 4084876b 40729b1e 0000005f 407c172c bfffef28 4084876b 4156002b bfff002b ffffffff c0108100 00000010 00000282 40010773 00000023 00000282 bfffef20 0000002b Call Trace: [<c010d46a>] [<c010bd00>] Code: a1 70 e1 ff ff 85 c0 78 0f 6a 00 b0 29 c0 e8 cb 87 00 Aug 13 20:34:46 kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffe170 -- NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.