Hi list, - I've ended up in a mess, now hear this... My SuSE9.3/KDE plain vanilla used to work like a breeze - with profiles and all. Somehow, while setting up the ThinkPad to work in a temporarily new wireless environment, I landed at this scenario: a) I edit /etc/inittab into runlevel 3. This causes a (as expected) textmode boot-up from where I can log in and to "startx". All is normal and life is good. However, if I (in textmode) fire up "mc", I get the most strange linedrawing characters. I.e., "mc" is useable, but looks very odd. b) I edit /etc/inittab or YAST into runlevel 5. Reboot. Now I get KDM with a list of ALL users and systemusers (from /etc/passwd I think) listed. If lucky, with a working keyboard and I can log in. But, alas, only to a blue background with a very primitive Xterm - that doesn't respond to the keypad. I cannot do CTRL-ALT-F1/F2 etc., to get a shell. I cannot do anything - only switch off the machine. This leaves the runlevel set to 5, so a rescue CD is in order. Once fixed I'm back in scenario a). Question: where does KDM get its list of users from, where is (if any) its configuration file? How to get back normal life again? And, oh, thank you in advance and sorry for this long writing! -- ------------------------------ Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard Open Source Academy www.os-academy.dk Denmark +45 56964223 +45 2014 5551 ------------------------------