<Fixed>Computer Frozen After Boot

[Ray2047]

If you have been following my saga of evil computers this post concerns my backup computer.

Backup computer was up and running fine. I normally just let the computer run when I go to bed with wallpaper set to slide show on a 5 minute cycle. This has never seemed to be a problem in the past. Probably wasn't the problem now.

Dejavu just like a week ago with my main computer but with my backup computer I wake up and the monitor is black. I use a "no blank" script but just in case tried hitting "any key" to bring the monitor up. No change. Then tried to go to text with ctrl+alt+F2. Nothing. Even checked all the cables. Finally just had to do a hard shut down.

Fingers crossed I turned the computer back on. It booted to desktop. All seemed normal then I realized wallpaper wasn't changing, mouse was frozen, and no response to keyboard input such as ctrl+alt+F2. Again just had to turn off the computer. Tried again. Again booted fine but almost the same result except no mouse even showed up.

I am using the computer now with a live CD and it seems normal.

Before I try reinstalling PCLOS or changing hard drive any suggestions on trying to repair the existing install?

Thanks in advance.

[menotu]

Do you use a KVM?

[Bald Brick]

You seem to be (or to have been) running KDE. First try renaming the folder /home/<yourname>/.kde4 (on your hard drive not on your live CD). If it helps you can start restoring various KDE settings afterwards. If it doesn't, we have almost ruled out it being a KDE problem.

[Ray2047]

Do you use a KVM?

No

[Ray2047]

You seem to be (or to have been) running KDE.

Yes, fully updated.

First try renaming the folder /home/<yourname>/.kde4 (on your hard drive not on your live CD). If it helps you can start restoring various KDE settings afterwards. If it doesn't, we have almost ruled out it being a KDE problem.

Will do. Thanks.

[Ray2047]

OK, renaming the KDE directory worked. Should I start copying  in files from the old KDE directory one at a time and testing? Any suggestions which ones in what order?

[Bald Brick]

OK, renaming the KDE directory worked. Should I start copying  in files from the old KDE directory one at a time and testing? Any suggestions which ones in what order?

One at a time would take inordinately long. I'd start by restoring ~/.kde4/Autostart and ~/.kde4/share/apps and if that doesn't break the system I'd restore the parts of ~/.kde4/share/config that I really don't want to reconfigure. Logging out and in again after every single file isn't really practical (but restoring bunches of ten files before testing might be).

You don't have to restore the links cache-localhost, socket-localhost or tmp-localhost as they are automatically recreated.

[Ray2047]

Thanks. Sounds like a good plan. I was not looking forward to one at a time.

[Ray2047]

I am marking this as Fixed. Copied enough in that it is working satisfactorily. Thanks for the help.