[COLUG] KDE is acting up in FC8

[Bill Baker]

On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:59 -0500, Bill Baker wrote:
> A few days ago KDE stopped working for me.  When I start it up, it
> appears to start just fine at first.  But when kicker (the task bar)
> comes up, it immediately shuts down and I'm left with a screen full of
> icons.  If I try to click on an icon, the screen immediately goes black
> except for the cursor and gkrellm, which comes up every time I start
> KDE.  Gnome works just fine for me, so I've been using that the past few
> days.  I haven't found anything useful in /var/log/messages
> or .xsession-errors.  Any ideas on where else to look?
> 
> A little more background, earlier this month I upgraded FC6 to FC8 using
> yum, and everything was working fine for a while.  I also bought a new
> barebones system which works just fine once I turned off acpi and
> installed the proprietary ATI drivers.  But if this was the problem, why
> would Gnome work for me but not KDE?

Thanks to another person contacting me off list, I figured out that
something in my .kde folder is preventing it from starting correctly.  I
renamed the .kde folder and started KDE and now it works fine.  I just
have to reconfigure everything.