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Started up this morning got to log in screen and noticed splash screen was different when tried to log in screen goes blank pointer changes to x then back to log in. Can't log in as root on KDE. logged into failsafe started kde from terminal added another user, new user can log in normally. How can I get back into my other user profile. I checked system logs and found these errors: session opened for user "xxxx" by (uid=0)
can't update authorization file in home dir /home/"xxxx"
cannot create sesion log file .xsession-errors: permission denied
session closed for user "xxxxx"
I can open my old profiles files from the new user but I would prefer to fix this the right way any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Fedora Core 4
Gateway 7210 laptop
tryed that and received no such directory or file exists. If I go into failsafe I can command startkde and get that to work but shell outputs font error message as it opens. If I log in as my new user at splash kde opens normally. Other thing I noticed is that the session manager at splash screen no longer lists gnome.
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