On Thursday 30 November 2000 19:15, you wrote: > Package: kdesktop > Version: 2.0 > Severity: grave > Installed from: Source(CVS) The exact 2.0 release, or later ? > KDE 2.0 starts up fine. But... >=20 > 1. The panel at the bottom is screwed up. It has no "K" icon only 2 up = arrows indicating, it's a start menu. Though panel show minimized icons p= roperly, it has gray color, also all the menu selections are in gray. >=20 > 2. I opened up CPAN directory under klauncher. After going down couple = of pages seeing the modules klauncher received SIGSEGV (whatever that it = is...) signal and everything crashed. >=20 > Desktop is still kinda buggy..... >=20 > Here is the startup sequence, if this helps........ I can see that there's something wrong with the setup. Do you have $KDEHOME set ? If this is post 2.0, you have a binary called kde-config. What does kde-config --path icon say ? What about kde-config --path servicetypes ? --=20 David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/ KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today See http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html for how to set up KDE 2