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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:07:03 +0800
"Carlos Sia"
Help! My Linux box was working properly last night, but today I am unable to login as the default user. Let's get the GUI out of the picture for now. First, go to a virtual terminal (eg. ctrl-alt-f1). At the login prompt, enter your user name and password. If that is successful then your problem will be with KDE.
Now, using sudo or su, transition to multi-user mode (run level 3), for
example:
gaf@gaf:~> sudo /sbin/init 3
This will stop KDE.
Then in your home directory rm .DCOPserver*
In your .kde directory, remove the links to /tmp/ksocket_xxx
I would then clean out the entire /tmp directory. Many applications put
junk into the /tmp directory and you can set your system to
automatically clean it up, but this time, let's just do it.
Once you have cleaned this up, then try to bring up kde by hand using
the startx command. If that is successful, log out of KDE, and
transition back to run level 5:
gaf@gaf:~> sudo /sbin/init 5
This is obviuously a broad brush. I think that Sid's solution is
relevant also, but I have not experienced an NVIDIA crash.
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Jerry Feldman