Hi . It turned out > to be related to the 'iceauth' program, not dcopserver. There were THREE > files in my home directory, '.ICEauthority', '.ICEauthority_c' and > 'ICEauthority_l'. Deleting the last two made it possible to start kde > again. If anyone else runs into this after applying updates, I wanted to > save them some time. :-) its a good idea to file a bug report in bugzilla.redhat.com with the workarounds you used -- Regards, Rahul Sundaram