On 06/13/2010 09:38 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: > "The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE: > No write access to $HOME directory (/home/thomas). > KDE is unable to start." Have you tried to come up as single user via Grub? If not try it. You may find that fsck has failed on /home. Run it by hand. Then try rebooting. Tony