[NTLUG:Discuss] kde crashed and now won't start up....

[Chris Cox]

This is ONLY a guess.  KDE has the ability to parse the plugins
and other stuff from you existing non-KDE browsers.  Go to the
config panel and down toward the bottom I believe is something
like "system" or something like that.... that's where you'll
need to turn some stuff off.  Of course, the problem is getting
in to begin with.  You might want to move your .kde2 directory
temporarily (rename it)... try starting up and see if you can
get in... in fact, that might be the solution (of course you
may have to do some work to get your customizations back).

> don wrote:
> 
> I've been running KDE 2.0.1 for several weeks now with out a problem,
> until the other night when playing the Mozilla binary, everything
> crashed in a bad way.  I ended up having to hit the reset button just
> to get my box back.  Now, I can't get KDE to start up properly -- I
> get what seems to be almost done, and then it hangs -- no mouse, no
> keyboard, nothing.  This happens everytime I start up.  GNOME works
> fine.  If I log in as another user, and start kde, its works
> beautifully like before.  So...at this point, I'm guessing I have a
> configuration file or a settings file that's been corrupted, or
> something similar.
> 
> What can I do to try and track down what's going wrong at startup ?
> 
> Don