First the problem: After finishing the upgrade from 10.1 alpha 3 to alpha 4 I tried to use the graphical log-in to my user account. This initially resulted in an alert box with the warning that it couldn't start kstartupconfig. Pressing "Okay" resulted in a second alert box stating that kdeinit couldn't be started. After pressing "Okay" on this box resulted in being returned to the log-in screen. The solution/workaround: I logged in using fvwm as the window manager instead of KDE, logged back out, swapped back to KDE and logged back in again. Not sure what this reset, and a look at the available log files doesn't appear to show anything, but this sequence worked. Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62