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!). >