Ok got a bit of a problem with KDE 3.2

yesterday i installed Mandrake 10 with KDE 3.2 evrything went flawless. But got a error when shutting down so i neened to cut the power.

Today i try to boot again but my kde won't go furter then the spash screen it's stuck at 45 % somthimes at 85 % loading! so when i wait 2 min then i just see the spash screen disapear and i can only see a blue background and my cursor, nothing else!

I allready reformated & installed Mandrake and KDE 3.2 again but no use the problem won't go away! so if anyone can help me!

grtz & thx in advance

you mean to say, you had a hardware failure, killed power, KDE ceased working, you formatted the HDD and reinstalled BUT you still have the same problem?

That sounds like Hardware, because Software should be back to normal, but it takes more than loss of power to fork your hardware.

try logging on as root, and see if root can get KDE running, if it can and your user account can't i'd guess it's a lock file. kill the contents of the home directory/.kde and you should be right (if root can get access). Though that would mean you didn't format your HDD, rather just installed over the top. Not sure what MDK would do with your files in that case.

Yes, it was a failure in shutting MDK down. It froze and i had to kill the power... next morning i booted up again and KDE got stuck during boot-up. I even put a new hd in my computer to install it on the new hd but after installing KDE failed to get past te spash screen again. and i was pretty sure i formated it good. But going to try to do what you told me to do an pray it works!

Thx for the reply

Hi all,

I've got a similar problem. I'm a Linux newbie and I've had Mandrake 10.0 Community installed for a few months now.

Yesterday I went to login and KDE brought up the splash screen. It loaded to 28% and then it just stopped. I can login with the failsafe option in LILO but that doesn't really help. If anyone has had this problem before, I'd love to know how you fixed it....!

Thanks

If there's an improper shutdown and the files don't get saved right, the journaling filesystem handler does some work to try to fix the errors. The same thing happened with ext2 filesystems and improper shutdowns. Ext3 is supposed to be able to fix things faster, but who knows. Just let it run for a while and try to fix the errors due to the improper shutdown. Who's got some experience with this and estimates on how long the file fixing takes after a bad shutdown?

Well it's nice to see i'm not the only one with that problem!
Today i tryed installing Mandrake 10 again on my VMware (virtual Os emulator in windows) and i tryed to boot in KDE and it worked fine again! But i think it's realy weird after formatting my Hd en reinstalling Mndrk that KDE still won't boot up without VMware that is

Thanks, I'll try that! I'll let you know how it goes.

don't forget you don't got network support in VMware! it brigdes your connection but it won't work for me maybe you got better luck mate

Ok, here's what I did,

I logged in, and as before it stopped after 28%. I left it for about 7 minutes and came back and KDE had loaded! Great! I was thrilled, but after using it for about 5 minutes I realised that it was pretty unstable and most programs wouldn't load. If the programs did load then they were likely to crash. I thought a reboot was in order, but it didn't help and i've still got to wait the 7 minutes or so for KDE to load. I've done this several times, thinking that KDE might nut itself out, but it doesn't look like it will.

When I get a chance I'm going to burn off all my stuff and reinstall Mandrake 10.0.

If anyone knows how to fix this problem, let us know. Hopefully I won't have rebuilt my MDK already!

don't bother on reinstalling... i formated my hdd like 10 times!!! installed mandrake over and over and over and it didn't work after all...

Sup guys.

I am having the same problem. Would like to know what it is, I can assure anyone thinking that it is hardware, it isn't. I have a feeling it has to do with the MandrakeOnline registration and support that is built-in...but I am unsure how to disable it. *edit* It isn't that, come to think of it, I can't believe I mentioned that w/o further testing...

Anyway, just my two cents, would like to see a solution if anyone was one.