From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; H010818) Description of problem: When logging out from KDE, the system does not consistently restart the kde desktop. Problem has two sets of symptoms: 1) Get a white bloom when the kdesktop trys to restart after logout. 2) Screen goes blank / no signal after logout. No error messages are reported in the /var/log/messages Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login using KDE 2.Logout 3.See the crash. 4.Repeat Step 1 and 2 until the probelm occurs. Actual Results: Problem has two sets of symptoms: 1) Get a white bloom when the kdesktop trys to restart after logout. 2) Screen goes blank / no signal after logout. No error messages are reported in the /var/log/messages Expected Results: Desktop should restart and come up with login prompt. Additional info: Redht 8.0 with full updates as of 01/11/03
it's fixed in 3.1 release, which is in rawhide.