On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:20, Rex Dieter wrote: > 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>* > No :-( That got me through login, as before, then a couple of seconds of whirring, then nothing :-( Anne
