...If someone finds me screaming on top of a clocktower with a sawed off shotgun, you can blame the combination of high-pitched tech squeals coming from the entertainment center in the living room. I swear to God, I'm about ready to rip all of the plugs out of the wall.

Is there anything else I can do? Because I'm seriously being driven out of my house.

Hey, I'm having a weird problem with Kubuntu over the last week or so. When I load the OS and get to the login panel, I log in fine with the correct u/p combination, but then the screen blanks out for a second and goes back to the login panel; the splash screen that normally indicates the system is loading doesn't show up. Every time I try to log in, the screen just blanks and takes me back to the log in panel. It's driving me mad.

When I log in at the command level, it logs me in properly; but I don't know how to load the GUI from the command line, or if the same problem would occur if I did try to load from the command line. Any suggestions?

Kristin, is there a power strip you can turn off?

You might try "startx" from the command line. I think Xorg isn't starting up for some reason.

If X weren't starting, she wouldn't get a login panel.

Good point, but it will still be useful to see what happens. Does the resolution switch between KDM and KDE? I'm not really sure if it does, I kinda think not, but the screen blanking out sounds like a resolution change.

Logging in from the command line and running startx should start up KDE I think. A really odd possiblity would be that the default session is set to command line. Full root partition that makes KDE bomb out? I'm just guessing really.

I would defintely post a question at ubuntuforums.org.

Hey, I'm having a weird problem with Kubuntu

On the login page, you should see an Options button, hit that, then Select Session. Choose KDE from the list.

A really odd possiblity would be that the default session is set to command line.

It's not, because it starts up in GUI and I re-load to get to the command line.

I'll try startx--that was my next step, but I've had to much around in Windows most recently, so. Eddie, I'll try that too, but I think I tried all the different session options available and it did the same thing each time.

I'll report back.

Does anyone use RSS with their torrenting? I'm looking at a client for Azureus and it's making me dizzy.

Worth it?

I haven't tried it, but Opera has RSS and Bittorrent support built-in so it might handle it. I use Opera for my podcast client and I actually like it better than the dedicated ones I've used. It's not exactly full featured in the podcast client role though.