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

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 1:58 AM, zxq9 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 06/22/2012 08:58 AM, Andrew Z wrote:
>
>> 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 .
>>
>
> 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!).
>