On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 16:44 +0200, Mark Panen wrote: > However when I use KDE and as soon as I open Konqueror, the harddrive > comes on and it sits there accessing whatever on the drive. The system > seems to "hang" - no response from mouse or keyboard. I then have to > reset.
Sounds like some kind of data corruption. Boot in to the recovery console and run fsck /dev/hda* to check the hard drive for errors. Use /dev/hda* if your drive is IDE, and /dev/sda* if it's SATA or SCSI.
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