kwrite belongs to kdebase and kate belongs to kdesdk.
You are right in that it is inadvisable to remove kdebase (and probably kdesdk too, but that depends on your needs).

You can try to remove them from terminal with


but I don´t know how smart that is.I think these packages are part of KDE so maybe removing them you will remove other packages.Someone else probably know that better then me.Read this because you will need it in future.

Then we can rule out usb hangups.............

Oooooh yeah multi boot , forgot about that  , that means no splash screen ( that is what I meant by initial screen , giving you options to alter your booting temporarily ).
and your kernel boot command is almost as simple as mine .

Before we go to that , I see from another forum , that kde4 desktop effects may cause a problem.
One users solution was to go to kde start > settings> desktop effects and remove the tick mark from the " enable desktop effects switch".
A simple thing to try first.

anglophony

Since your opening the GUI of dolphin, you:
and at top of display you will see the run dialog field.  Enter
hit enter
and you will be asked for your root password.  
You can also open konqueror this way, too.  I make sure to close / exit from the file manager after I am through tinkering.

If I want to edit just a file I open the run dialog and:
kdesu kwrite file name and path I want to edit as root

Lisa Marie

Hi, I just use kwrite or Kate for system editing , called from the command line as root.
But Owiknowi is correct , sure is the fastest way to screw up the system if your not careful  




Edit: My favorite filemanager is midnight commander

I tend to agree ,Maurice.

Couple of other things , some usb devices (e.g. external hard drives , not keyboards or mice ) have caused a ( older ) system to hang  or to not boot , something to see to ( remove them temporarily ) .
As I mentioned , mine was a hard to install thing, so I disabled ( in software ) a couple of things , not force , just removed them from the kernel boot.My boot looks like this now:  " kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.37.6 root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root resume=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap ".

You may want to try this at the inital boot screen in the parameters line, it'll restore itself in the next boot.

usual one can/may only edit system files as root, and that's a pretty sensible protection for your system.
if you just want to get to know some system files, just copy them to your desktop and change the read/write properties. but there's not much point doing that, imho.

if you want to try different setting in system files, just to see what happens, you could consider a separate test installation on another partition?

btw. kongueror is by default installed in pardus 2011.x, just go to the kick off menu / internet / konqueror (webbrowser). you even can set it as your default file browser (see attachment).

Ok then Maurice, assuming you have not altered KDE  ,it's likely ok , ( at least mine is , and mine was a difficult install ).
Can you do a dmesg , while in konsole, just see if there are any lines that have the word " error " in them.....................

This may be a silly question, but desktop are you using, sometimes the configuration needs to be tweeked.

I know you're likely to be using KDE , but lets be sure...

Hi Maurice,
Your hardware is a bit  newer than mine, as I'm using a socket 939 athlon motherboard with nVidia GeForce 8500 GT card.  I had to read up on your CPU, and if it is the Q6600? (you wrote 06600) then it sounds impressive and still has a strong following these many years later.  

I did some searches and didn't come up with anything, either, accept to do as atolboo suggested, which you tried.  What seems stranger is that the command SW gave to shutdown computer through command line did not work for you.
Did you install any proprietary driver during the install of Pardus?  
You could check for error messages in terminal output of dmesg, or look at /var/log/kdm.log or your home's xsession errors.  

should show a pid number.
Lisa Marie
P.S.  Also, you said it freezes.  Some of us have had problems with very slow shutdown while using VPN or dial up connection where it would take my computer up to 4 minutes to finally shutdown.  No problems on startup.  Did you try waiting for several minutes to see what it does?  Several=oh, about seven minutes, just to be sure.  

G'day

OT= Off Topic

Sorry for OT!

When You shut down Computers by hard switch off then reading head of HDD is not in protected parking position so every movement and shock will hurt the reading head and of course the surface of the magnetic disk. This could be the reason for the HDD failures (especially on Notebooks because usually You move and shake them a lot), but not the power off itself.