On Thursday 11 of October 2012 21:52:48 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Thank you both, Slavek and Tim. I had tried re-running apt-get update > and then apt-get dist-upgrade but that did not help. I just followed > Slavek's advice and was surprised to see that packages were removed > rather than upgraded: > > root@denise:~# dpkg --configure -a > root@denise:~# aptitude dist-upgrade > The following packages will be REMOVED: > gs{u} kdesdk-scripts-trinity{u} kpilot-trinity{u} > libavahi-compat-libdnssd1{u} libavahi-qt3-dev{u} libdbus-qt-1-1c2{u} > libkjsembed1-trinity{u} libogg-dev-la{u} libpisock9{u} libpoppler-qt2{u} > libsensors3{u} libxxf86misc1{u} > > However, it has not fixed the problem. The TDE splash screen appears > stuck on starting system services and, behind it, is an error message > about could not start kdeinit :( What next? Thanks - John > > Try to remove from /tmp folders kde-_your_login_ and ksocket-_your_login_. Slavek --