On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 08:44, R N dev wrote: > > Do you return into gdm or into a text-mode console? In the first case > > it sounds like your home config files are broken. Try CTRL-ALT-F1 and > > login in console mode what happens? > > I've had this one. It's a pain but what got screwed up where the window > manager config files. (In this case the .kde* directory files.) Try > removing all of these files (log in as root to console and cd to the > users directory and do a carefule rm -Rf .kde* ) then try logging in > again. It's a pain for sure to re-setup kde but the only out I've found > when they get hosed. Seems that sometimes during a hard shutdown all of > these files get scrambled.
One easy way to test for this is to log in from gdm selecting a different window manager from the one you normally use; IOW, if you're a KDE user, try logging in to Gnome or IceWM. If it works, it's the KDE configuration files that are hosed. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 & 9.0 "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams
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