I had to share this. Yesterday I hosed KDE because I wanted to see the Penguin herding the Windows icons. No other excuse.
Something the Texstar KDE .rpm put in my home directory crashed the load just after the splash screen. I know it was in my /home directory because in desperation, two hours later, I pulled out the CD's and reinstalled, reformatting everything but /home and a second drive /archive. I booted with a grin, and it crashed again. And again. Finally this morning I got out the Linux Desk Reference someone on the list suggested, booted without the graphic crutch I rely on daily, copied my /home into the /archive and re-formated the lot (except /archive). After a brand new install without the damage I've inflicted on the box the past year, I visited PLF, got my urpmi sources straight, updated everything, collected my life blood from the archived /home, and I'm back in business. Leaner, meaner, and more experienced. (Not necessarily less dumb.) No doubt there are 10 better ways to recover. I don't care. I did it based on what I've learned here, and I did it. In my Windows days, I would have lost untold piles of files, software and proof of ownership, passwords, serial numbers all would have had to be recovered, throwing time and money down the deep dark hole. I couldn't have done it without you all. Thank you Lee
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