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.

I tried using Opera's torrenting, but the downloads tended to stall in a way that Azureus never had. And the configuration options are so much clearer in Azureus (well, many of them are still Greek to me, but at least I know where they are if I need to follow instructions) so I went with it.

I want to tie RSS in if it means it'll automatically grab shows without me having to go out and get them. I know it can't be that easy, though.

I tried using Opera's torrenting, but the downloads tended to stall in a way that Azureus never had.

Bummer. I've never tried Opera for bittorrent so I didn't know it wasn't fully baked.

ita, I've been messing around with the combo of Democracy [link] and tvrss.net - I don't torrent enough stuff to have a good feel for whether it stalls out more or less than other options, but the "get me new eps when they're posted" part is automagical.

Okay, just that lead page for Democracy is giving me warm feelings in my nethers. Downloading stat.

Coming soon to a browser near you: videopiracy.provocateuse.com

Democracy is all kinds of awesome.

So, neither suggestion for kubuntu worked. Selecting KDE as the selection didn't do anything, and it blanked out again before showing the login window; and going in to the command line and using the startx command just ran through a long line of code before bringing me back to the command prompt again. I have no idea what's going on, and I don't really have anything on that partition it would hurt to lose, but it's still frustrating, and shakes my faith in Kubuntu somewhat, which is a shame as I was planning on making it my primary OS.

If you run the command "startx > output.txt 2>&1" and mail me the contents of output.txt, I can help you debug it. The problem is that there are just so many things that could possibly be wrong.