From kde  Mon Apr 16 21:01:00 2007
From: Guy <guy.zelck () scarlet ! be>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:01:00 +0000
To: kde
Subject: Re: [kde] Where are the logs (Desktop(?) Problem)
Message-Id: <4623E40C.4040302 () scarlet ! be>
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Thierry de Coulon schreef:
> Hello,
> 
> This morning I had a sudden electric interruption and when my mail machine 
> (running Mepis Linux / Ubuntu basis) "recovered", I only had a blue screen 
> (because I have a blue wallpaper).
> Now I've checked the file systems, but tthe problem remains: the system starts 
> fine, until KDE starts, it then remains stuck a long time 
> saying "initializing peripherals", and then loads the blue screen, totaly 
> empty and reactig to nothing.
> 
> I first thought some configuration files had been damaged, but this also 
> happens if log in as root, so the problem is deeper...
> 
> It's not such a problem, because I was in the process of transferring my 
> system to OpenSuSE but i?d like to find the logs to understand what went 
> broke. However I don't find them, so I guess I'm not searching the right 
> place.
> 
> Thierry
> 
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The logs :
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
~thierry/.xsession-errors  (in your home directory)

In your home dir you do:
rm -d .DCOP* .ICE* .Xauth* .mcop* .dco*

In de following tmp dirs :
rm -rf /var/tmp/*-thierry /tmp/*-thierry

Then reboot.

Guy.
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