After being on vacation, I thought to catch up with the updates for F8. Rebooting to the updated system and KDE is hosed. The xserver starts and the initialization begins but drops back to the command console. There seem to be two elements to the problem. Something called PolicyKit is suddenly active and blocking access to some elements and there are missing .so files. The messages are -------------- W: polkit.c: Failed to show grant dialog: Unable to lookup exe for caller W: polkit.c: PolicyKit responded with 'auth_admin_keep_always' N: main.c: Called SUID root and real-time/high-priority scheduling was requested in the configuration. However, we lack the necessary priviliges: N: main.c: We are not in group 'pulse-rt' and PolicyKit refuse to grant us priviliges. Dropping SUID again. N: main.c: For enabling real-time scheduling please acquire the appropriate PolicyKit priviliges, or become a member of 'pulse-rt', or increase the RLIMIT_NICE/RLIMIT_RTPRIO resource limits for this user. xset: bad font path element (#94), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca kcminit_startup: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_kcminit_startup.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_ksmserver.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory startkde: Shutting down... klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 17877, errno = 11 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. ----------------------- Tried tweaking the group file and looked at man PolicyKit.conf to get the stanza for authorizing access to resources. The same errors repeat. Why did PolicyKit come to the foreground? Where did the .so files go? Looks like a conspiracy as switchdesk gnome gets me to the graphical display. Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F8-update-kills-KDE-tp16763533p16763533.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.