HELP! Urgent! Unable to log in

[Willy K. Hamra]

D. R. Evans wrote:
> D. R. Evans said the following at 08/16/2008 08:08 AM :
>> Trying to log in, instead of seeing my nice shiny KDE desktop after
>> the login screen, I just get a blue screen and then after a while I
>> get the following:
> 
> Fixed! I deleted the /tmp/kde-n7dr directory and now everything seems fine.
> 
> Not obvious, though, is it? I think that the problem was that there was a
> lock file present (startkdeinitlock; goodness knows why it was there) in
> /tmp/kde-n7dr. It would have been a lot easier if the error message had
> explained that.
> 
>   Doc
> 
weird stuff like this can happen, a corrupt .bashrc once prevented me
from logging in graphically, and on another PC i was removing tons of
GUI programs to transform it to a server, one package refused to get
removed properly and caused me problems with APT because a file that
needs to be deleted wasn't there (already deleted), i had to touch a
file with the same path and name for it to work!
glad you solved the problem, at least you got pointed to the right
directory, and not told in the windoze way "an error happened somewhere
dangerous i can't tell you where since you're a noob, call our non
supportive staff on our sky-high priced phone number" :-P

-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems
Co. Manager of Zeina Computer & Billy Net
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