I'm not exactly a "newbie" but I am relatively new to the Linux world. I've been using it off and on for probably about 7 months. Anyway, last night Dolphin was screwing up, so I rebooted, and now when I try to log in as me, it just hangs. But I can still log in as root.

I'm thinking it has something to do with a desktop icon trying to run as some other user, because I couldn't even manage files in my home directory -- even though I was the owner/group that was on there.

Anyway, running Slackware 13.0 32-bit with 1 GB of RAM. And is configured to do logins through the X server interface. KDE 4.2.4

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Are you able to log into a standard terminal?
Press ctrl+shift+f5 (or f6/f7) and try logging in from there.

I have tried that... it just gives me a blank screen with a blinking cursor... but I can only switch once. I can press ctrl+alt+F2 and get the cursor, but then I can only press ctrl+alt+F1/F7 from the tty1 (F1) it won't go back to F2/F3/F4/etc. It'll only go there from F7.


I'm thinking it might work if I can just delete that one icon, but I'm not sure how, since KDE 4 basically sees the icons as "widgets" rather than as "icons" as Windows does.

Thanks, though.

Try renaming $HOME/.kde4 to $HOME/.kde4.bak and so you could start KDE with default configurations.

your home directory might be full to the brim. this can cause a similar problem.

Okay, I got that fixed, but still have virtual terminal problems. Only tty6, tty1, and tty7 work (7 is X). Ideas?