I was having trouble with a kde 2 installation on woody that seemed to freeze. While I was going through the mail archives I saw instructions for installing kde 3 on woody so I blew away (apt-get --purge remove kdelibs3) my kde 2 installation including the .kde directory in my home directory and installed kde 3. All went well. But I have the same problem. Here are the details: After booting I log in via gdm. The kde splash screen comes up, gets to "initializing services", hangs there for a minute or two, the splash screen goes away leaving me with just gray, and after 5 to 10 minutes kde starts. If I open up Konqueror and try to read any directory on my machine it will hang for another 5 minutes or so. Once it has read one directory it can read the rest quickly. I've attached the .kde3-error file and the .kderc file from my home directory. I don't know enough to understand what they're telling me. Little help please? And while I'm asking, what's a good book on kde? I'm looking for something to pull me up from low end user to at least somewhat able to administer it intelligently. Kde 3 really looks nice. Thanks, John Purser
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