Hello SuSE people.
The following paragraph is a repeat of my original message, for background.
Welllll.....I went and did it - screwed up again. Trying to gain a little disk space, I went in and deleted a partition that I wasn't using very much. Of course that changed drive numbers (which I didn't realize until now), and moved /var up to the next drive number, and I failed to go in an edit fstab. Of course the next time I booted Suse failed because of the change.
Sooo... Then I booted the DVD and went into the "repair system" and it offered to change my configuration. I accepted that and it changed /var to whatever--- I don't know. Certainly didn't help and/or made it worse.
So since the "repair system" from the install directory didn't work, I then tried "rescue" but couldn't figure out the commands after the "rescue" prompt.. Even brought up "Vi", but couldn't access anything with it. I have all kinds of notes and procedures on how to do this kind of stuff in my e-mail archives but of course I cannont access it.
Running 9.2 with Amd 64. Really don't want to reinstall.
Somebody Please? help me get my system back?
Mark Taff and others tried to help me with suggestions, none of which worked. Finally reinstalled without formatting some partitions and was able to see, from the console as root, that all of my data was still there.
Problem is I cannot get KDE to start as a user. I can startx as root and KDE will come up. Following are various messages I get. From the cli in level 3 as a user issuing startx: .X.err permisssion denied From the KDM login screen: EasyStreet kdm [5810]: Xserver for display :0 terminated unexpectedly Directly after logon by user a screen with messages: Could not read network connection list /home/bob/.DCOPserver_EasyStreet_0 Please check that the "dcopserver" is running. No write access to $HOME (/home/bob) And in a little grey box at the top of the screen, the following : Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation. Fooled around checking various things, did another "repair system", but am unable to figure out what is wrong. Will somebody give me some guidance/assistance please? Bob S.