On 11/22/2009 07:03 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've got a really strange situation. I've been experiencing some memory > leaks, and when I saw top report that I was getting dangerously low I used > ctrl-alt-backspace as the quickest way of killing X. Up to now, when this > happened I have always rebooted, but I hoped that by killing my session I > might not need to reboot. > > I got to the login screen, gave my password, and it sat there at the default > splash screen. I couldn't go any further. > > In a failsafe session I searched for LOCK files, but the only ones I found > were in /etc/selinux/targeted/modules. > > I tried renaming ~/.kde, but exactly the same thing happened, and a new ~/.kde > was not created. could try removing everything matching rm -rf /tmp/*<username>* /var/tmp/*<username>* -- Rex