<SOLVED> Boot Up Does not Complete

[spacecoastpete]

Running on a IBM T61 Thinkpad.  Recently unstalled PCLOS KDE 2011.07 mineme version.  All was working until yesterday when I started up.  All seemed normal.  Got to screen where userid/password is entered.  Did so an pressed ENTER.  System began starting up.  got to screen where the 5 icons gradually display.  first 3 were normal, 4th one started to display then the 5th, then all faded, disappeared.  Screen went black and nothing else happens.  Get message "Cannot open File delete"

Windows installation boots fine.  PCLOS LXDE installation boots fine.  KDE installation boots fine with root login.  Problem only occurs with my personal login.

Nothing happens when I press ESC during boot up.
 

[YouCanToo]

Log in as the root user. One logged in open a console window and change to your user space like such

cd /home/yourusername

once there rename your .kde4 directory IE: to something like .kde4.bak

mv .kde4 .kde4.bak

do not forget the dot before the kde4

now logout from the desktop and see if it will boot normally into your userspace

[spacecoastpete]

Log in as the root user. One logged in open a console window and change to your user space like such

cd /home/yourusername

once there rename your .kde4 directory IE: to something like .kde4.bak

mv .kde4 .kde4.bak

do not forget the dot before the kde4

now logout from the desktop and see if it will boot normally into your userspace

Already tried that.  Nothing happened.

[AS]

How much RAM do you have, and what graphics card/chipset ?

[Hootiegibbon]

which "type" number is it of T61 (on underside of laptop), also I think that this may be an intel chipset (centrino dualcore)

when you say its only on your personal login is it that other users on that install are ok?

and all other PCLinuxOS installs work ok?

Jase  

[Just17]

log in as root and open a terminal and type the following command

df

copy and paste the output into your next post.

[YouCanToo]

Log in as the root user. One logged in open a console window and change to your user space like such

cd /home/yourusername

once there rename your .kde4 directory IE: to something like .kde4.bak

mv .kde4 .kde4.bak

do not forget the dot before the kde4

now logout from the desktop and see if it will boot normally into your userspace

Already tried that.  Nothing happened.

Sorry about that, at least it was worth a shot. Guess we will have to try something different.

[Rudge]

Log in as the root user. One logged in open a console window and change to your user space like such

cd /home/yourusername

once there rename your .kde4 directory IE: to something like .kde4.bak

mv .kde4 .kde4.bak

do not forget the dot before the kde4

now logout from the desktop and see if it will boot normally into your userspace

Already tried that.  Nothing happened.

Sorry about that, at least it was worth a shot. Guess we will have to try something different.

If you log into root it has to be related to the specific user.

Try logging into root and creating a user from scratch. See if you can login as the new user. 

[spacecoastpete]

How much RAM do you have, and what graphics card/chipset ?

3gb  Nvidia

[AS]

How much RAM do you have, and what graphics card/chipset ?

3gb  Nvidia

  nvidia 

please post the output of the command:

lspci

[spacecoastpete]

If you log into root it has to be related to the specific user.

Try logging into root and creating a user from scratch. See if you can login as the new user. 

Created  user 'Tester', booted up with no problem.

[spacecoastpete]

How much RAM do you have, and what graphics card/chipset ?

3gb  Nvidia

  nvidia 

please post the output of the command:

lspci

[test@localhost ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] (rev a1)
02:00.0 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Turbo Memory Controller (rev 01)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
[test@localhost ~]$

[Hootiegibbon]

If you log into root it has to be related to the specific user.

Try logging into root and creating a user from scratch. See if you can login as the new user. 

Created  user 'Tester', booted up with no problem.

If all "new"  user accounts are ok, then it must be a configuration  specific to your user account.

are there any previously existing configuration files from a previous distro or is this a shared user account with another install?

Jase

[spacecoastpete]

If all "new"  user accounts are ok, then it must be a configuration  specific to your user account.

are there any previously existing configuration files from a previous distro or is this a shared user account with another install?

Jase

The account was created using the same home directory as another KDE installation.  If I remember correctly, is was a distro other than PCLOS.  Everything from that install should have still been there.

Had no problems logging into the account for over a month after I installed PCLOS.  This problem just started a couple days ago.

Changed homedir to xxxxxx-old.  Deleted account and reentered account.  Booted up okay.  Just have a little work moving some of my personal files to the new directory.

Consider this solved....