I've already posted this in the Feedback forum, but it was thought this might be more of a redhat related issue. Here's the problem:
when I log into a KDE session, kalarmd launches imediately, and holds the CPU at maximum load. This slows the system down a bit, so I usually kill it as soon as I log in. The more troubling part of this problem is that NO KDE-native apps (KOffice, KFormula, KBounce, etc...) will run. They just hold the CPU at max load, just as kalarmd did.
System Specs:
Intel P4 @ 2.6GHz
RedHat Linux 9, Kernel 2.4.20-20.9, all packages fully updated (could this be it?)
also, I cannot launch the KDE apps from GNOME. The result is the same.