[clue-tech] KDE login freeze

[Michael S. Farnsworth]

CLUEmeisters, need some help re where to look for help.

Not sure what the heck happened but am having sudden problems with my laptop freezing solid trying to login to a KDE session from the KDM login screen although once in a while it reboots the machine instead. On the other hand, if I do init 3 and then startx, all is well.

I followed the following advice that I managed to google up (courtesy of wiki.kde.org). Towit, I created a new user and the KDE login works fine for that lucky sap. So am assuming the trouble might lie somewhere within my ~/.kde?

I followed the further advice of exiting X altogether and then deleting:
~/.DCOPserver-*
/tmp/k*<user>
/var/tmp/<similar>
~/.kde/socket-<hostname>
~/.kde/tmp-<hostname>
and generally anything else I found that mentioned my username. No luck. Still freezing. Didn't find anything related on bugs.kde.org. Couldn't get onto the CLUE server to search and am wondering if anyone knows of a source for the detailed workings of KDM.

It's apparently not just KDE because I get the same freeze trying to start the other window manager sessions as well. I found kdmrc but don't know what to do with it without some more documentation. I read the XDMCP Howto but couldn't see anything that looked helpful (of course it would help if I could understand it better). :-)

Pointers?

Thanks,
Mike Farnsworth
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