Booting problems with KDE ?

[Nigel Ridley]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 
> OK, to begin: "booting" and "KDE" don't belong in the same sentence...
> 
>> I just did a dist upgrade on my Feisty Toshiba laptop; rebooted to check
>> everything was OK (a new kernel image was installed) - it booted normally.
>> I then turned it off and after an hour turned it back on again only to
>> find that it was taking ages to get to the login screen and then would
>> freeze after getting to 'loading Desktop' (on that nice graphical bar
>> after logging in).
>>
>>  From a terminal (Alt Ctrl F1) there were a couple of error messages:
>>
>> Loading, please wait
>> kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/hda3) =hda3(3,3)
> 
> The "k" in "kinit" is for "kernel", not "KDE"
> 
>> kinit: trying to resume from /dev/hda3
>> kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot....
> 
> Completely normal.  The boot is looking for a resume image on the swap
> device - there won't be one unless you previously hibernated.
>  
>> id_static: final link failed: No space left on device
> 
> That, otoh, has nothing to do with /dev/hda3 - it _probably_ means your root
> device is out of space.
> 

Thanks for the explanation - it's always good to learn some more...
I had just finished a long overtime stint and was kind of tired - that's my excuse 
and I'm sticking to it ;-)

I'm hoping to get one of those Dell Ubuntu laptops (and stick Kubuntu on it).

Blessings,

Nigel

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