Hello,

Can anyone help me with this?

I am using KDE 3.0 on Mandrake 8.2. I installed Netscape 7.0
and ran menudrake (for the first time ever) and now I cannot start
kde. The splash screen get to "Initilizing System Services" and that's
as far as it goes. I loged in with a different window manager and removed
the new menu entry, but that did not help. Other users can still run kde.
Any ideas? I know I could remove and recreate the user, but I would
rather fix the problem (and maybe learn something) if possible.

Thanks for any suggestions!

-o

You can remove your .kde directory in /home/your_user_name, to do so, login into system as another user, open up an Xterm/Konsole type
/bin/su -
enter password for root account
now you are root, this is the time to navigate to /home/your_user_name_you_want_to_have_kde, so issue
cd /home/your_user_name_you_want_to_have_kde
once there
rm -fr .kde/
exit
Exit of window manager, and login as the user who had problems with kde
Note: You'll loose all KDE settings for that user by removing .kde/ directory, so back up first what you might need before removing the directory.