On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ian Malone wrote:
One thing it may be worth looking at is whether a ls on your home
directory works (the normal aliased ls with colour coding meaning it
needs to stat things).
it takes a little (just noticeable not slow: it is a dir with more than
300 files) but it works.
I've sometimes found KDE hangs at the 'icons'/splash
stage and it's
invariably because of a link in my home directory to a mount point
which is timing out.
I don't have an icons directory, so it is not a timeout on mounting some
device.
Walter
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