Suse 10.2 completely frozen shortly after KDE login

[TheRG]

Hi all,

After working fine for several weeks, my Suse box suddenly started to have trouble. When I login as an unprivileged user, KDE starts, the desktop appears, but some seconds later the keyboard is completely frozen, the mouse cursor does not move, and nothing works. The only way out is to hit the reset button, as if it were a Windows 3.1 machine.

There must be something wrong in the KDE startup, but have no idea how to find it.

In fact, if I login as root and rename the .kde folder, e.g.

mv /home/john/.kde /home/john/.kde-DISABLED

then I can login again as user 'john'. Of course, the applications that used to start automatically at login (thunderbird, kopete, etc) must now be launched manually one by one.

The easy solution seems to set up the startup apps the same way I did before. But what if I really wanted to understand what is going wrong? How could I dig out the cause of the problem?

Thanks in advance,

TheRG

[TheRG]

A quick update:

The trouble-maker application was ktorrent. After removing all files inside folder /home/john/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent everything is working again, or so it seems.

One single application freezes the whole machine. Who is to blame here: the dumb user, ktorrent, KDE, or Suse?

[siggyxxx]

A quick update:

The trouble-maker application was ktorrent. After removing all files inside folder /home/john/.kde/share/apps/ktorrent everything is working again, or so it seems.

One single application freezes the whole machine. Who is to blame here: the dumb user, ktorrent, KDE, or Suse?

I use exactly the same stuff and never had a single problem!
f***ups on OSs happen some times..noone's to be blamed!
Nothing is perfect like we r not too,right?
use Azureus better though..much much better

[TheRG]

Well, I haven´t seen a Linux freeze in several years. Three months ago I switched from RedHat 9.0 / Gnome to Suse 10.2 / KDE, and the fact is that my old Linux box was more reliable than the new one.