Linux locking up on me

[sym]

KDE boots fine, but when I click on a program icon to activate it, the whole thing locks up on me.

1) Any ideas why this is happening?

2) How can I findout what is running and trying to run?

[Ace69]

I am unaware on why it is locking up, but I know that you can go to your terminal and type "ps -aux" and it will give you all services running.

[sym]

Still the same problem; KDE locks up whenever I try to launch anything.

Is Gnome more stable?

Is there some way I can re-install KDE?

Any Advice?

[lostintexas]

check and make sure you video is supported. i had one that wasn't and the same thing hapened. i just went back to xwindows 3.???, i cant remember but the prob was i did not have enouph video memory(i had 1 meg). good luck.

[Malakin]

This sounds video driver related.

If ctrl-alt-backspace doesn't take you out of X after you think it's crashed then it probably has nothing to do with KDE.