KDE not starting
Marcus
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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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