Help! Locked out of my laptop

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On 11/22/2009 09:03 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.




You didn't run out of disk space by any chance?





>
> I can list all the files and directories in /home/anne and they are all owned
> by me.
>
> A second user account is fine, so I know that KDE as such isn't damaged.
>
> I'm completely out of ideas.  What have I missed?
>
> Anne
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