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<p>CLUEmeisters, need some help re where to look for help.</p>
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<p>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 <span style="font-weight:600">init 3</span> and then <span style="font-weight:600">startx</span>, all is well.</p>
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<p>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?</p>
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<p>I followed the further advice of exiting X altogether and then deleting:</p>
<p>~/.DCOPserver-*</p>
<p>/tmp/k*<user></p>
<p>/var/tmp/<similar></p>
<p>~/.kde/socket-<hostname></p>
<p>~/.kde/tmp-<hostname></p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>It's apparently not just KDE because I get the same freeze trying to start the other window manager sessions as well. I found <span style="font-weight:600">kdmrc</span> 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). :-)</p>
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<p>Pointers?</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Mike Farnsworth</p>
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