>>Thanks for the suggestions. Here's what I can tell you: > >The system did operate perfectly for some time >Creating a new user doesn't work - same error message >I can log-in users in console mode. The error occurs when trying to use >KDE or Gnome. >I'm not 100% sure it was KPPP that caused this but I did virtually no >customizing (I don't know how) > >I can find hardly any of the files that Zibby refered me to: > >I have no /etc/hosts nor /etc/hostname >I can find only one error log. That is home/carl/.xsession-error It >doesn't look to contain any info that would be helpful in this situation. > >Maybe I should just reinstall & try again being VERY careful? > >What I really want to do is get Tuxracer to work. He works on my windows >drive but not in Linux. This is at the very least immoral if not illegal!