KDE/Mandrake 9.1

[Clive DaSilva]

Hello

Had a really weird experience yesterday. I have been running mandrake 
9.1 with the stock kernel 2.4.21-013mdk, for perhaps  3 months.
I read an advisory which suggested that I upgraded the kernel to 
2.4.21-026mdk, (all nicely packaged by the Drake folks), as a 
preventative measure against some root exploits. I use KDE 3.1 as the 
window manager, and since I've installed this kernel, KDE sometimes 
doesn't come up when I login as a user (it just hangs), or it comes up 
and crashes within 5 minutes. I have since been using IceWM as my backup 
window manager. Now, I've kept the old kernel, so I have a choice of 
kernels to boot from. When I try to run KDE using the old kernel, it 
crashes too.

My question is, has anyone had a similar experience like this? I could 
stick with IceWM for now or use another window manager like XFCE, but 
I'm really curious about this.

Any ideas, folks ?

Clive

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Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel 2.4.21


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