This morning I started up the computer and when it got to the point of setting up the desk top the setup picture showed the various stages of setting up but the rest of the screen was blank. "File system is cleanly unmounted /dev/hdb1 has been mounted 29 times without being checked,check forced Then follows the fsck check proceedure and remount of fs Could this have any thing to do with te problem.? I" ctl alt f1" to login as root init 3 ,ran yast2 and setup a new user,init 5 and I was able to login as user2 :-) However I could not access my email etc. I went back to root and edited my original home directory name and user name and re initialised ,and I was able to access all my files but as a new user . I thought HaHa so I went back and tried renaed the username but the screens remained blank on re initialising ? How can I get my original username ? -- marking@paradise.net.nz Attachments destroyed automatically without viewing except by prior arrangement