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

Log in as "root", go to your /home/xxx user home directory, and do an "ls -la .xsession-errors".

Assuming user "xxx" and group "users", you can change the owner as follows:

chown xxx:users .xsession-errors

Hopefully, that'll fix it for you.

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.

OK, then maybe the problem is actually with your .xinitrc. Here are a few links:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg00403.html

http://64.179.4.149/questions/history/244968

I decided to reinstall any way but thank you for your time and responses