KDE hangs on startup

[Nirmal Govind <nirmalg@psu.edu>]

Hi.. I had almost everything working fine on my ibook3... X was working
fine and KDE used to startup fine.. then I tried installing pmud and it
kind of screwed up some things I think.. right now, when KDE starts up,
it hangs while trying to "initialize system services". That's the second
flashing image in the KDE splash screen when it starts up.. I looked
around a bit and there's this DCOP server thing which is getting started
and that seems to be causing this.. also if I look at the processes, I
see that there's a modprobe going on which never finishes.. below is the
set of processes that start when I start kde.. please let me know how I
can get this resolved...thanks.. nirmal

nirmalg    407   336  0 02:59 tty1     00:00:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/X11/startx
nirmalg    416   407  0 02:59 tty1     00:00:00 xinit
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/X11R6/lib/X
root       417   416  2 02:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100
-nolisten tcp
nirmalg    420   416  0 02:59 tty1     00:00:00 /bin/sh
/usr/bin/x-session-manager
nirmalg    445   420  0 02:59 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent
x-session-manager
nirmalg    451   420  1 02:59 tty1     00:00:00 kdeinit +kcminit
+knotify
nirmalg    452   451  0 02:59 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: Starting up... 

nirmalg    455     1  0 02:59 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: dcopserver
--nosid
nirmalg    457   452  0 02:59 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher      

nirmalg    458   457  0 02:59 ?        00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher      

root       459   458 51 02:59 ?        00:00:14 /sbin/modprobe -s -k --
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