On Thursday 14 August 2014 10:11:17 am you wrote: > >> > >> And if you do manage to find the offending file I'd like to figure > >> out what happened so that we can prevent it occurring for anyone > >> else! > >> > >> Tim > > > snip > > Very strange; it looks like the kdesktop_lock process is continuously > restarting. I have never encountered anything remotely like this. > > Are you certain kdesktop and kdesktop_lock are the latest R14 > versions? If there is an old 3.5.13.2 or lower kdesktop_lock > executable in your path it might theoretically be able to do > something like this. > > Tim Never found an answer, the kdesktop_lock was so annoying, even dropping back to the login screen again. I removed all *-trinity packages, + 'rm -R /opt/trinity' ..whatever was left there, removed anything remotly associated wit TDE, tqt3*? stuff. Re-installed and it works ! I enclosed my current .xsession-errors file, much cleaner..a few comments I don't see when running Wmaker, which I had to use to sort this thing out..yea for WM. It sems it was a failed upgrade, all the packages were R14 versions but something in /opt/trinity or /etc ? Thanks for all the comments. [dcopserver] It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/pabi/.DCOPserver_tdewheezy__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- [kded] Daemon (kded) is already running. [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... [tdebuildsycoca] Reusing existing tdesycoca. [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. [starttde] tdeinit started successfully. [kdesktop] SAK driven secure dialog is not available for use (retcode 6). Check tdmtsak for proper functionality. [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-pabi/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-pabi/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-pabi/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [tdecore] Deleting stale lockfile /tmp/tde-pabi/kdesktop_lock_lockfile [kdesktop] SAK driven secure dialog is not available for use (retcode 6). Check tdmtsak for proper functionality. tdeio (TDEIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data (pid 15589 process "nit] media /tmp/tdesocket-pabi/tdelauncherSfEROM.") [tdeinit] Could not find 'tdewalletmanager' executable. -- Peace, Greg