Long story short, my Slackware box was running fine but I had an application (gxine) that was hanging so I decided to reboot to clear it. I couldn't clear it by killing the session. Anyways, when it rebooted it booted to the command line as normal, like I want it to, then I login and run "startx". Normally it loads right into KDE, but this time it loads the splash screen then the screen goes blank and just hangs. The mouse cursor is there and it doesn't react very well. I have left it for 20 minutes at a time and it doesn't finish loading KDE. I imagine I need to uninstall KDE and reinstall it but I'm not sure if I need to uninstall/install all the KDE packages or just the kdebase. I would rather keep my preferences but if I have to start over with KDE to get it working then that's fine. I just don't want to have to reinstall the OS.

uname -a

Linux 2.6.13 #1 Sat Sep 3 21:11:20 PDT 2005 i686 athlon-4 i386 GNU/Linux

Any other info you guys need inorder to help me out? Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advanced!

hello
once i had this problem and i ducked out the 'fixing' job, instead i deleted my user account (alongwith its home folder) and created a new one. if you can log-in as root and run kde, use "kuser" to delete and recreate user.

Ok I was able to get into KDE as root fine. But when I tried going into KDE as my user it froze again. Looks like KDE is corrupt for my user. I'd rather not delete my user and the home folder as I have a ton of stuff and I dont feel like copying it and all. Is there a way to delete KDE from the user and readding it?

Im using KDE 3.5 if that makes a difference. Also I created a brand new user in KDE logged in as root, using kuser. When I log in as that user it hangs as well. Weird that only root lets me log into KDE fine..

try renaming your .kde directory in your home dir and try to logout KDE and re-login.

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I'll try that when I get home... But if I created a new account and that account froze logging into KDE I don't see how deleting the other users kde directory would fix it.. But when I log into KDE as root its fine...

Out of curiosity, did you run any KDE programs as root while you were logged in as your normal user account? Though sudo or otherwise?

I find on my own system (I don't use KDE, but I do use things like K3B), that if I run a KDE program as root when logged into my user account, it screws up the permissions on .Xauthority and some other files, and keeps X from starting properly the next time I restart.

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Yeah here and there.. Never had a problem before.. I think the problem lies with something I did with slapt-get a few weeks ago. This was the first reboot since then.. I had wanted to update a particular package.. and me not knowing what I was doing I tried :slapt-get -update packagename: and it didn't like that, so I tried :slapt-get -upgrade packagename: didn't like that, so I did :slapt-get -update: and :slapt-get -upgrade: and I think it fouled something up with KDE somehow.. That's the only thing I can think of that would cause it.. Ive never had a problem running K3B as root for burning CDs/DVDs.. But I was messing with gxine the day KDE started acting up, that's why I rebooted, to clear whatever was going on with gxine. But the problem still exists with gxine, when I log in as root into KDE and try to play a radio station stream(that was playable in gxine before my problems) it loads gxine, buffers for a second and gxine crashes..

hello
instead of deleting your home directory you can just rename it and create another user.
gxine has never given me a problem, but i remember installing gxine > 0.49 causes it to crash.
so i am happy with gxine 0.49.

Ok i renamed the .kde in my users home directory, rebooted and I can log into KDE as my original user. But I get an error when I try to use xine or gxine to play a streamed audio broadcast. I get "floating point exception"

Any ideas on how to fix that? I already uninstalled gxine and installed gzine .0.4.8 with slapt-get.

maybe the setting is not restored. Usually, re-run the application will work

It seems to work better since i uninstalled/reinstalled. I think the problem was with the website I was getting the stream