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 > > > 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!). >> > >