Hi, I would suspect something at application-level data file corruption. Try moving .kde aside. Also what does the X server log and .xsession-errors files say when you try to login?
About hardaware level errors - do you see anything suspicious in dmesg's output? If it's hardware or OS error triggered during a login attempt then you should see something in dmesg. Cheers, --Amos (apologies for top-posting, it's a mail client limitation) On 10/29/08, elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I use Dapper at the present. > > On the weekend I was copying images from my DSLR > (common event) to my machine using Digikam. > > I was running a few other things and suddenly the > whole system froze. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace didn't > work. Nor did Alt-Shift-sysrq-S-U-B. > > So I held in the power button and turned off the > machine. A restart was fine indicated some > checking going on (I can't recall unfortunately > what the message was but kept a copy of the > 'messages' file). > > Then just a short while ago, I was deleting a file > and I got a message along the lines of not being > able to access /home/patrick/.kde/config/<name of > file>. Then I couldn't download an e-mail, with a > message along the lines of having a full HDD (I've > got 10s of Gigs left as can be seen at bottom). > > I could not work out what to do, so I tried to > restart X - this only shut me out of using either > Desktop (Gnome or the usual KDE). > > So I selected to shut down the machine. Then > waited a for a minute and restarted. I then got a > message saying: > > /dev/hda2 clean > /dev/hda3 contains a file system with errors, > check forced. > > I allowed this to run to it's conclusion. Along > the way I got a message saying: > > Deleted inode 3342344 has zerod dtime. Fixed. > > Then everything seemed to go well with the rest of > the drive being checked. > > I'm pretty much at a loss (google wasn't too much > help - could be me) > > Could someone please provide me with some > information about what this may mean? > > The drive is only about 14 months old and the > motherboard about a year older. > > Many thanks in advance for any assistance provided. > > Regards, > > Patrick > > ******************* > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda2 20G 8.2G 11G 45% / > varrun 689M 152K 689M 1% /var/run > varlock 689M 4.0K 689M 1% /var/lock > udev 689M 128K 689M 1% /dev > devshm 689M 0 689M 0% /dev/shm > lrm 689M 19M 671M 3% > /lib/modules/2.6.15-52-386/volatile > /dev/hda3 438G 304G 113G 74% /home > /dev/hdb1 147G 88G 52G 64% /video > > > > -- > Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
