On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:53, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
On 11/22/2009 09:03 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> I've got a really strange situation. I've been experiencing some memory
> leaks, and when I saw top report that I was getting dangerously low I
> used ctrl-alt-backspace as the quickest way of killing X. Up to now,
> when this happened I have always rebooted, but I hoped that by killing my
> session I might not need to reboot.
>
> I got to the login screen, gave my password, and it sat there at the
> default splash screen. I couldn't go any further.
>
> In a failsafe session I searched for LOCK files, but the only ones I
> found were in /etc/selinux/targeted/modules.
>
> I tried renaming ~/.kde, but exactly the same thing happened, and a new
> ~/.kde was not created.
You didn't run out of disk space by any chance?
No, I have some GB left
Anne