[SOLVED] New Install with issues

[mark9117]

I installed Mageia 1 from the live CD on my Toshiba Satellite A105. It went well, but there are a couple of issues I'm having trouble tracking down. And this is all after installing about 55 updates tonight, a lot of which were kde-related, that I hoped would fix it and didn't.

First, when I start the machine the window manager starts then the plasma shell crashes -- segfault on signal 11, whatever that means.

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kdm.log:Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

I can kill the X server and then log in just fine via the gui.

Then once I'm in, I see both cores pegged at 100% running kded4.

I can kill (actually zap) the process manually so in /usr/share/kde4/services/kded/networkstatus.desktop, I changed

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X-KDE-Kded-autoload=true

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X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false

It did not resolve the issue. Kded4 still starts automatically at boot and monopolizes both cores.

I realize I'm presenting 2 very distinct issues here and I am willing to open an second topic, but I was hoping this was just a couple of simple, known issues that someone might recognize and point me in the right direction.

I'm still googling these things but I'm not really having much success.

Thanks.

Mark

Edit: This system worked fine until the initial updates after installation. I'm reasonably certain that the issues I'm seeing are a result of an update.

[doktor5000]

Can you try to login with a newly created user or with xguest user? Does it still happen?

[mark9117]

Okay, it's an issue in my user profile. In fairness, my home directory is chock full of my old Mandriva configs. I have created a new home directory and recreated my user to point to that directory and all is well. I'll have to start moving my data files into that new directory and recreating my settings and theme configs. Typical -- I get it looking really good and have to start over.

Thanks.

Mark