On Friday July 18, 2003 Bob Mclaughlin wrote: > Doc, Scott, > Thanks for the reply. I have been booting to run level 5 > until the same lockup occurred at the graphical login > screen. I just intervened in Grub to run level 3 to see > what happens starting as root or skipping the login screen. > The same lockup happens only at the Desk Top screen (login > screen not used). I've also tried booting from 2 earlier > kernels with the same result. The only thing done on the > last working session was to check the mouse configuration in > xwindows and even if that corrupted a file I wouldn't think > it could get the keyboard as well. Does anyone know of any > logs I might look at or any reload options.? > Bob Bob, OK... The screen you are describing is the one after the GRUB splash, all the text mode stuff and the briefly displayed text mode login. It shows the sequential installation of the various graphical desktop components. IIRC, you're supposed to be able to delete the various dot files for GNOME (or KDE -- not sure) if they become corrupt. If they're not there the next time you log on, they're supposed to be recreated by copies from /etc/skel (I believe). Try moving those dot files to a safe place and log out/on again in runlevel 5. --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list