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.

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