KDE not starting

Marcus lists at wordit.com
Tue Aug 8 19:55:14 UTC 2006


John DeCarlo wrote:
> In recovery mode, go to your home folder and type "ls -al" and check
> through all the ownerships for anything not owned by your user
> account.  Change those files to match the rest (sudo chown user:user
> .ICEauthority, for example) and see if that helps.

Thanks, I had deleted several of these dot files because AFAIK, X/KDE 
will recreate them. Hope I didn't mess up even more by deleting them.

> There could also be problems with your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  Maybe
> something happened to it.  You can see if there is a recent version of
> that file in the /etc/X11 directory that you can use instead.

That sounds very likely too. If there is no copy, how do I create a new 
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file without KDE?


Thanks again,

Marcus




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