Hi folks, Occasionally on booting after login as USER on KDE desktop the OS hung on desktop half-booted. The bottom tool bar disappeared. Neither Ctrl + Alt + F4 nor Ctrl + Alt + F2 had function. A hard-reboot by pressing 'Reset' button was the only solution. Another time on booting the screen hung on ...... Updating /etc/fstab Also a hard-reboot was the only solution. $ cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 Have any sugguestion where should I check. TIA B.R. satimis

Could there be a reason the system wants to update /etc/fstab ? Like an undefined mass storage device which sometimes is connected and sometimes not ? Or a CD/DVD which it cannot mount and happens to be in the cdrom drive ?

Does it only happen for the one user? What if you create a new user? Does ggnome hang too? If it is a specific user and KDE problem you could always delete/rename /home/USER/.kde and /home/USER/.kderc

Hi Guido (by Guido130473), Tks for your advice. There was no CD on either CDRom or CDWriter. B.R. satimis

Hi 3Dave, There is only one user. I will test the same user on Gnome. If problem still occurs then I will create a new user to test it. $ cat ~/.kderc [General] activeFont=Sans,11,-1,5,74,0,0,0,0,0 background=220,220,220 fixed=Monospace,11,-1,5,48,0,0,0,1,0 font=Sans,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 foreground=0,0,0 menuFont=Sans,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 selectBackground=10,95,137 selectForeground=255,255,255 taskbarFont=Sans,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 toolBarFont=Sans,11,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 windowBackground=255,255,255 windowForeground=0,0,0 If removing ~/.kderc, would it be regenerated on another login on KDE by the same user? TIA B.R. satimis

Yep, if you remove .kderc and the .kde directory, they will be recreated with default ones the next time the user starts up KDE.

Hi 3Dave, Tks for your advice. I have been working on GNOME eversince from lasting posting. So far not much problem found except in one occasion while working on OO-Writer the screen disappeared partially. Init5 and init2 also did not work and mouse pointer disappeared. A hard reboot (pressing reset) restarted the PC but hanging on ... Updating /etc/fstab A second hard reboot had no improvement still hanging on above. Finally I switched off the PC and restarted it. It worked without problem booting straight to GUI login. I suspect whether having some problem on hardware. Where shall I check? B.R. satimis