JoeHill wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:19:27 -0500 Clive DaSilva <cdasilva-q6EoVN9bke6w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
Had a really weird experience yesterday. I have been running mandrake 9.1 with the stock kernel 2.4.21-013mdk, for perhaps 3 months. I read an advisory which suggested that I upgraded the kernel to 2.4.21-026mdk, (all nicely packaged by the Drake folks), as a preventative measure against some root exploits. I use KDE 3.1 as the window manager, and since I've installed this kernel, KDE sometimes doesn't come up when I login as a user (it just hangs), or it comes up and crashes within 5 minutes. I have since been using IceWM as my backup window manager. Now, I've kept the old kernel, so I have a choice of kernels to boot from. When I try to run KDE using the old kernel, it crashes too.
I haven't seen anything like this come up on any of the Mandrake lists, but I would suggest asking as well on Expert.
Do you see anything in /var/log/messages or /var/log/XFree86.0.log?
It could be that KDE was compiled against the old kernel and is pitching a fit now that newer modules are being loaded, though why when you boot into the *old* kernel would hence be a mystery.
Hello Joe Thanks for your comments. I could see KDE barfing at the new kernel and modules, but as to why I had probs with my original kerenel, well who knows. I thought perhaps that I should remove KDE all together and then re-install it from the Mandrake CD, but I decided against, wasn't too thrilled with KDE anyhow (bloatware). My solution was to use the XFCE window manager which is small and light, allows me to use all the KDE applications, etc Thanks for your comments Clice -- Clive DaSilva CMA Home Tel: 416-421-2480 Cell: 416-560-8820 Email: cdasilva-q6EoVN9bke6w5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21 -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml