KDE 3.2 Crashing

[airdragon]

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

Edited September 21, 2004 by airdragon

[spinynorman]

I posted this problem before and tried all the suggestions to no avail

Brad - it is not helpful to start up a new thread when you already have one running on the same topic. Please don't make a habit of it.

 

I have closed your old thread.

[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.