On Sunday 22 November 2009 16:45, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 16:07, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:20, Rex Dieter wrote: > > > could try removing everything matching > > > rm -rf /tmp/*<username>* /var/tmp/*<username>* > > I finally managed to get a failsafe start-up - for some reason I had failed to when I tried earlier. I got the console screen, and when I tried to startx I found there was a stale lock on it. Removing that has given me my desktop back, so panic over! :-) Anne
