I'm having problem on a machine which has been working well until a week or so ago. Running FC5 updated from FC4 some months ago. Machine is kept up to date via yum. When logging in under kde - it spends a long time at "Initializing peripherals" and then returns to the login screen. If I init 3, login & startx - kde works fine I can login in under gnome - no problem. If I try and login as root in kde, I find that any subsequent attempt to login in gnome has problems because / is read-only, which is fixed with a mount -o remount I've tried deleting everything in /tmp & renaming ~/.kde - doesn't help. Nothing has been changed in the physical setup of this machine in years. I'd be grateful for any help/advice as I have no idea what to do next. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com