I cannot get back to KDE

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> --- "Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 16:00, Antonio Olivares
> wrote:
> > > --- "Scot L. Harris" <webid at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 15:43, Antonio Olivares
> > wrote:
> > > > > Dear folks,
> > > > >    I shutdown one of my computers and when I
> > > > turned it
> > > > > back on I get:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Your session only lasted less than 10
> seconds.
> > If
> > > > you
> > > > > have not logged out yourself, this could
> mean
> > that
> > > > > there is ome installation program or that
> you
> > many
> > > > be
> > > > > out of diskspace.  Try logging in with one
> of
> > the
> > > > > failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this
> > > > problem.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Other than reinstalling everyting, is there
> a
> > > > simpler
> > > > > way to fix this problem.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sorry to bother you again,
> > > > 
> > > > Sounds like you might follow the instructions
> it
> > > > gave you.  I would
> > > > suspect you are out of disk space.  Boot into
> > single
> > > > user mode and check
> > > > if that is the case and clean up the disk so
> you
> > > > have enough space to
> > > > boot.
> > > 
> > > xfce runs, but KDE and Gnome do not.  I dropped
> > into
> > > the failsafe shell, but I do not know which
> > > command/commands to run and fix the problem.  I
> > have
> > > 6.3 MB free so it is not a question of
> diskspace.
> > > 
> > > The following files appear in the home directory
> > > KDE.startkde.Ra5609
> > > KDE.startkde.Tq5518
> > > 
> > > I tried deleting these but when I try firing up
> > KDE it
> > > gives me the same weird message.
> > 
> > Have you tried creating a new user that uses gnome
> > or KDE?  If that
> > works then it indicates the config files under the
> > users home directory
> > have been messed up.  You can try moving those
> files
> > else where and then
> > starting up KDE.  In most cases it will recreate
> the
> > users config
> > files.  Move them, don't delete them, you may want
> > to recover certain
> > things you had setup previously.
> 
> I tried creating a new user, antonio, as root user
> and
> I tried running KDE and the same message appears.  I
> try running GNOME and it stays hanging having to
> ctrl+alt+backspace.  I can only acess the KDE, GNOME
> desktops as root user.  Will wait a little before I
> start over from scratch.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Antonio
> 

Just an update on the situation, I can only run both
desktops as root.  Here is what is in the home
directory of both regular users
[root at localhost olivares]# ls
Desktop       KDE.startkde.bM7828  KDE.startkde.uc5936
 tmp
Documents     KDE.startkde.Ku7072  KDE.startkde.VG6611
j2re1.4.2_06  KDE.startkde.Ra5609  netbeans-4.0
jdk1.5.0_01   KDE.startkde.Tq5518  pppd.txt
[root at localhost share]# cd xsessions/
[root at localhost xsessions]# ls
gnome.desktop  kde.desktop  xfce.desktop
[root at localhost xsessions]#



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> > webid at cfl.rr.com
> > 
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> > salvation through suffering.
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