On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:22, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 14:14, tim at thewunders.org wrote: > > I'd switch to runlevel 3 and try to log in as my user. If that works, run > > 'startx' from the command line. > > Yes, tried that. Unfortunately, the same thing happens. *Something* that > kde saves when it shuts down is causing this. > > I've created a new user and copied .kde across, then changed ownership. It > has just completed the start of kde, but I now have 20 'run as anne' boxes > waiting for passwords. Hopefully as I go through these I will find where > the blockage is. > Well, all 20 are completed. Most of them belonged to akonadi or nepomuk. I have a perfectly good desktop, so now I have to find what other files affect re-creating your desktop. The only things that I didn't shut down cleanly were konversation and chromium. I'm inclined to suspect chromium, as I've always had that shut down before when I've finished a session, whereas I've often had konversation open and it has recovered without a problem, so now I'm on the hunt for chromium-related personal files Anne
