Hi, Can you try to attach to the process that is looping forever, and try to get a backtrace from it ?
What you should do is: "gdb kdeinit <the-pid-of-the-process>" from the shell "where" in the gdb window. It's quite possible that this won't yield too meaningful results ( a lot of question marks ), but well, we can always try, can't we ;) cheers domi