KDE4 won't start...

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So I was doing something in HP device manager and KDE went down hard. I got the crash notification window, closed it, went to init3 and came back to init5. I got the login screen, but when I attempt to login the screen goes black and then come’s back to the login. I’m not sure were to go from here… how do I start kde from the command line; i would like to see some error messages…

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

opensuse: 11.3
kde: 4.4

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The last time I blew up KDE, I went back to the normal login screen, selected session and switched to XFCE. I was able to find Yast in the brief menu. I went to Software Management and then did a search on “KDE”. Everything that appeared to be for KDE4, I right clicked on it and picked update. It took a long time to sort through all of the files and it took a long time to reload the entire KDE4 desktop. When it was done, I restarted and KDE 4 came right up. This is the best suggestion I have, but it did work for me.

Thank You,

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Well I think I found the problem: my “/” directory is full! So now I need to clean it up.

The “/” partition is 20g. Below are the big users…

/var 13.3G
/usr 5.8G
/tmp 0.4G

any thoughts on what I can safely remove from these directories?

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The culprits are /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn. The size of these files was over 6G each! logrotate should have cleaned these files up but it didn’t. Could these files have filled up just on my last session? Anyway, I’m running logrotate now… we’ll see what happenes.

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OK, so you ran out of disk space. I did not think about that one, but it sounds like why you died in the first place. I would guess you must manually delete these files. I wrote a script that lets you look at these files so you can see what BS is filling them up.

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/development/programming-scripting/443467-slave-suse-logfile-automated-viewer-engine-another-userful-script-file-you.html

To clear the temp folders each time you restart, which might also help,here is what you do.

Open /etc/sysconfig/cron, search for a line saying

CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP="no"

…and edit “no” to “yes”. This could also be done via GUI: YaST → “Editor for /etc/sysconfig”. See if this also helps…

Thank You,

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Yeah, I had to delete the files myself. After that everything worked fine.

Thanks.