>My home directory is a separte hard drive, it is been reused on updates >or from backus sinceat least 2004. It has quite abit of old config >info, some xsession-errors are related to this. My testing of TDE in >vm's do not have any issues >I will try cleaning up my home dir first, thanks for your reponse. As a quick test, you can try creating a new account and make sure that you have no issue with it. If that is the case, the problem is almost surely related to some old stuff/config still present in your home folder. Cheers Michele