cat .xsession-errors xset: bad font path element (#62), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... KCrash: Application 'ksplash' crashing... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly. kbuildsycoca running... KCrash: Application 'kbuildsycoca' crashing... kdeinit: Shutting down running client. Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/skittel/.DCOPserver_hyperion.local__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- WARNING: Waiting for already running klauncher to exit. WARNING: Waiting for already running klauncher to exit. WARNING: Another instance of klauncher is already running! kdeinit: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! klauncher: Exiting on signal 11 DCOP aborting call from 'kded' to 'klauncher' --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/skittel/.DCOPserver_hyperion.local__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- KDE Daemon (kded) already running.