From kde-linux Sun Feb 26 08:56:28 2006 From: Stephen CS Howe Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:56:28 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] How to reset your KDE desktop Message-Id: <1140944495.3479.305.camel () oldbox ! tower> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=114094418828125 thanks a lot !! Next time it happens ( happens about once every 3 months), I will try to delete this file only, then report back on results. On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 03:36, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Stephen CS Howe wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I looked around on the web but could not find any reference to this > > topic anywhere. > > Ovr the last few years, I have had numerous experiences in which , after > > some system crash, I can login to the login screen of my distribution > > (Febora, various versions), but, then when i try to login as my normal > > user, during KDE initialization , the desktop freezes , the system > > completely locks up, and a manual reset of the computer is necessary to > > unlock the computer. > > > > The only method I have found to recover from this problem is then to > > proceed as follows:- > > > > 1. Login as root > > 2. Delete the directory .kde in the /home/"username"/ directory. > > 3. When you login again as "username" the desktop works again. > > > > What I want to know from you brainy folks is the following: > > 1. Is there some kind of log that would tell me what component of kde > > has broken ? > > 2. Is there a better way of unblocking my desktop ? > > The above method works, but , of course, you loose all your desktop > > settings. > > Due to changes in KDE you should no longer delete the $HOME/.kde > directory. Note that I think that these changes were a bad idea but > they don't seem to listen to me. > > Probably what happened was that a file in: > > $HOME/.kde/share/config[] > > was corrupted. Unfortunately, if a system crashes, files that are open > when it goes down can be corrupted. The EX3 file system helps, but it > doesn't always prevent it. So, with KDE not running, rename that > directory to like. > > $HOME/.kde/share/config.save > > and restart KDE. This will destroy all you your configurations and you > will go back to the defaults. But you can restore most of them by > copying the files from the "config.save" directory to the new one that > is created when you restart KDE. Sort them by date and restore the ones > that were at least an hour old when it crashed first. Restoring newer > ones is a risk and you need to decide if you want to risk it. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.