[NBLUG/talk] Re: talk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 19

A'fish'ionado afishionado1 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 20 12:15:01 PDT 2004


> My dad's Linux box (Debian Woody running KDE 3
backports) seems to be
> broken. :^(

> KDM starts up just fine, but when he goes to login,
the screen blanks,
> and then the KDM login screen reappears.

I'm a newbie :-) but I've had a similar situation that
only plagued one account, due to a defective user
settings file. Are there other accounts on the same
machine? If so, do they work? Maybe you could copy all
the settings/startup files from a new account to the
old one.

Just a thought.

William

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