Urgent advise needed. Only guest profile accesible, my own profile not.

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bas Roufs wrote:

> Hello Everybody, this evening, I have consulted the advises in
> thread and at 'Ask Ubuntu'. This is the page I have consulted from
> 'Ask Ubuntu':
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/175739/how-do-i-remount-a-filesystem-as-read-write
> By doing so, I DID manage to remount the file system and to rename
> the .kde directory in /home/bas. Then, I have rebooted the system.
> Afterwords, I tried to login again into /home/bas in the 'normal'
> way. However, I still have exactly the same problem. After logging
> in, I come back at the same point where I got stuck yesterday. At a
> certain moment, the cursor is unmovable and the system is totally
> stuck.

What is that moment? What is happening right before that? Is there a
system notification or is there a program you are launching that
causes it, or does it just happen if you wait a certain amount of
time after booting the computer? If it just happens after a certain
amount of time, does it always happen in the same amount of time?

> So, I am still stuck. What to do next?

You've now gotten advice from several people/sources, so it's
possible a step was overlooked or done differently than intended.
Please don't be offended at the repeat of the instructions, but I'm
pasting step by step instructions the way I would write them for
myself if I had to do what you're doing. That way you can go through
them and double-check whether you missed any or did something
differently. Also, this gives anyone else who is reading along a
chance to look them over and correct any that are wrong:

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1) Press and hold the Shift key during boot-up right after your BIOS message is displayed to get the GRUB menu to open.

2) Use the arrow keys to select your kernel’s recovery mode.

The Recovery Menu will open.

3) Use your arrow keys to highlight the line that says:

root	drop to root shell prompt

4) Press the Enter key to get to a root shell prompt.

5) Type this command to initialize your home directory:

cd

6) Press the Enter key.

7) Type this command to go to your home directory, replacing username with your user name:

8) cd /home/username

9) Press the Enter key.

10) Type this command to give yourself read/write access:

mount -o remount,rw /

11) Press the Enter key.

12) Type this command to rename the hidden .kde directory to .kde.old:

mv ~/.kde ~/.kde.old

13) Press the Enter key.

14) Type this command to leave recovery mode:

    exit

15) Press the Enter key.

16) Choose resume from the Recovery Menu.

17) Press the Enter key while the OK button is highlighted.

18) Log in to your operating system normally.

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If you decide to try going through the steps again and you see any
odd behavior or get any messages from the system when following any
of the steps, please make a note of them or copy and paste them in
here.

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Last, but not least, if you have time before the system freezes, you
can open the KSystemLog application (in the System menu) and look
through your logs to see if there are any clues to what's causing
this.

You mentioned that you can log in as a guest user without any
problems. I'm not sure if you can access the same logs from a guest
account. Maybe someone who knows could jump in and let us know how
that's done. (:

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.