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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject: Re: Windows XP SP2 - anybody tried it yet?
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:48:27 -0700
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Avery Bunker wrote:
> I had problems with KDE. The firewall blocked it so I could not start 
> KDE. After I took off Service Pack 2 it ran just fine. I looked at the 
> firewall but not being a KDE expert had no clue on what ports needed to 
> be added and which ones did not. It did add two services into the 
> firewall that KDE used but ot still would not start. It would freeze on 
> the splash screen.

Unfortunately, the XP firewall's automatic popup when a program tries to 
open a port doesn't work if the program is a service that cannot 
interact with the desktop.

Try starting the KDE processes as ordinary processes and see what alerts 
pop up.


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