[clug-talk] Can't boot to kde or gnome

[bogi]

Oh, that is not good news. Anyways, bring it in tomorrow an we will figure out 
what is wrong with it.
Cheers
Szemir

Ps.: bring a monitor and kbd just to make sure.

On October 2, 2007 20:52, Richard Carter wrote:
> Szemir,
>
> I created an new user but the that user couldn't log in to kde either.
>
> Robin
>
> On 10/2/07, bogi <khangyi at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > Create a new user, and see if that new user can use X and gnome , i think
> > one
> > of the session files or socket files was left or damaged when the power
> > went
> > away, finding them however is more intresting. If the new user can use
> > gnome,
> > do an lsof | grep newuser and see (where) it puts the session and socket
> > files, and clear those same files respective from your normal user's
> > respective folders, and the names will be different.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Szemir
> >
> > On October 2, 2007 16:41, Richard Carter wrote:
> > > Tom,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your email.  I just tried what you suggest and as far as I
> >
> > can
> >
> > > tell it didn't make any difference: i.e. running startx as root starts
> > > gnome but as robin is just gives a message about which log and conf
> >
> > files
> >
> > > were used and that irq 201 was disabled.
> > >
> > > Robin
> > >
> > > On 10/2/07, Tom Weniger <trweniger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On 10/2/07, Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Considering root was able to log in and use gnome, I'm not sure it
> >
> > is
> >
> > > > > an Xorg driver issue (although, that was the first thing I thought
> >
> > of
> >
> > > > > as well.)
> > > > >
> > > > > -Mark C.
> > > >
> > > > Greetings Mark,
> > > >
> > > > Can you do a gnome reset for robin?
> > > >
> > > > Log into robin, then do the following:
> > > >
> > > > Ctrl - Alt - F1
> > > >
> > > > Log into robin
> > > >
> > > > $ rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .metacity
> > > >
> > > > Ctrl - Alt - F7
> > > >
> > > > reboot and see if gnome works for robin.
> > > >
> > > > HtH.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Virtually,
> > > > Tom W
> > > >
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