KDE 4.1 won't start

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wednesday 06 August 2008, Eric wrote:
> I'm not sure what the default KDE is that comes with 8.04.1 but that's
> installed and it loads. What will happen to it if I rename the .kde folder?
>
> Thanks for your help.

If you rename it, KDE will create a new one with default settings.   Not a bad 
thing in my view and sometimes the only way to resolve an issue like that.

And when you get good at it, you can copy things out of the renamed directory 
(like email addresses) into the new .kde directory.

But have you checked the permissions on your home directory?   When you 
installed 8.01, it might have given your user a new UID and you would need to 
change the ownership of files.

All of this is a major reason why I never do an update in place.   Always 
install fresh to new partitions and setting the old release partitions aside.