great.... it appears to be the problem with compiz...

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Andrew Z <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Thank you for reply.
> nope, nothing unique - one hard drive and, i think, i just let installer
> to partition it they default way.
> i started moving dot files, but boy that's sooo slow - move the file -
> login- nothing - reboot.
> I think ill try your suggestion about new user.
> thank you!
> Andrew
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> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:58 AM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> On 06/22/2012 08:58 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
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>>> Hello,
>>> i have the sl 6.2 on Toshiba satellite that worked fine. Last week when
>>> i tried to boot it my x session hanged and i could never see my desktop.
>>> Messages xlog and sessions files have nothing that gave me any clues. I
>>> removed xorg.conf. No change.
>>> Here is current situation.
>>> If i login as root - all works. If i login as regular user the following
>>> series of the events happens.
>>> Login prompt -> some window pops up asking if i want to load default or
>>> old config. Then all goes black and the only thing that responses is
>>> mouse.
>>> Switching to tty takes good 3 -4 minutes . Yet top indicates no high
>>> cpu  usage .
>>>
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>> Some X managers can get crazy if they can't find the settings data they
>> are looking for. It looks like your old settings aren't being found.
>>
>> Are you on a networked file system, or are there any unique storage
>> things happening at all? As in, do you have the root file system on one
>> partition and /home on another drive or something?
>>
>> The easiest way to test whether its access to /home or not (whether
>> network, hardware issue, whatever) would be to login as root and create a
>> new user, then see if you can log in as that user. If you can log in with
>> no problem, then probably just a config file is corrupted and you can fix
>> the problem by removing that one file and letting the X manager regenerate
>> it.
>>
>> Of course, "which file?" is a fun question, so the slow-going way is to
>> move things like ~/.kde/ ~/.gnome2/ ~/.gnome2_private/ ~/.nautilus/ and
>> other things like that (maybe even ~/.ICEauthority) one at a time and test
>> to see if the situation changes any with each move. You'll move one at some
>> point that makes everything suddenly better. My guess is moving ~/.gnome2/
>> will probably be that file -- but you'll have to re-do whatever custom
>> settings you've done, which is annnoying but better than nothing.
>>
>> Alternatively you could just create a new user, migrate the data you
>> actually want to keep from your old home directory
>>
>> The nuclear option is, of course, to just remove all dotfiles at once and
>> log in the GUI to force it to recreate everything. But if you have anything
>> special or any other programs than the desktop are storing stuff it would
>> probably get wiped too, so this probably isn't wise (I'd be pissed if I
>> lost my Ekiga phonebook, my bookmarks, everything in ~/.wine/, not to
>> mention my KBreakout high scores!).
>>
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