airdragon

I have tried several solutions, none of which worked with KDE 3.2 in Mandrake 10.0. However, I finally tried Gnome and it works fine though I prefer KDE. I've checked various message boards and found no solutions. I suspect it has something to do with my SYNTAX motherboard and KDE 3.2 as other versions have worked as does Gnome.

I am having problems with KDE 3.2. in Mandrake 10.0 PowerPack edition. Everything is fine after the initial reboot, however when I shut it down and reboot again KDE stalled while loading at 85% and goes to a blank Blue Screen! Everything works fine as long as I don't shut the machine down. I'd really like to use Mandrake and get away from Winblows but the machine and OS are unusable in the current state. This is a fresh install and I never had this problem with Mandrake 9.2 on this same machine. I've tried going back to 9.2 and just do an upgrade and the same thing happens. I posted this problem before and tried all the suggestions to no avail any help would be great. But I'm not a linux guru so please dumb it down a bit. And yes I do have a NVIDIA card if that helps. I can't startx in root either. Here is a summary of what I get from the login screen as root: If I hit Ctrl/Alt/F6 and go to the login prompt and try to startx I get this: Using authority file /root/.Xauthority Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority Using authority file /root/.Xauthority Writing authority file /root/.Xauthority Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. When reporting a problem..................... Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org. Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key giving up Xinit: unable to connect to X server Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server Error. Thanks Brad

I am having problems with KDE 3.2. in Mandrake 10.0 PowerPack edition. Everything is fine after the initial reboot, however when I shut it down and reboot again KDE stalled while loading at 85% and goes to a blank Blue Screen! Now I know Linux is trying to make things work similar to Windows but I think incorporating the Blue Screen of Death is a bit much. Sometimes I can log into KDE under root and sometimes not. Usually I get to the console screen and try "startx" and get a message something like you don't have access or authority to "iceauthority" or something similar. I'll write it down next time but perhaps this is enough for those with more experience to figure out what I need to do. Everything works fine as long as I don't shut the machine down. And yes I do have a NVIDIA card if that helps. Thanks Brad PS here is exactly what happens. If I try to reboot it just goes to the Blue Screen after KDE stalls at 85% If I hit Ctrl/Alt/F6 and go to the login prompt I get this: Using authority file /home/username/.Xauthority Writing authority file /home/username/.Xauthority Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. (where and how do I fix this, remember though I've run Mandrake for a while I do more reading up on problems than actual using it)