I'd switch to runlevel 3 and try to log in as my user. If that works, run 'startx' from the command line. HTH, Tim ------Original Message------ From: Anne Wilson To: KDE on Fedora discussion ReplyTo: KDE on Fedora discussion Subject: Re: Help! Locked out of my laptop Sent: Nov 22, 2009 9:07 AM On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:53, Patrick Boutilier wrote: > 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? > No, I have some GB left Anne _______________________________________________ fedora-kde mailing list fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Sent from my B'Berry
