KDE hangs during load

[akuira]

I am running Mandrake 9.2 with KDE, Gnome, and many other lightweights... I have used KDE from the start of using Mandrake 9.2, it has been working like a charm for about 2 months now and all of the sudden when I restarted my pc, it loads X-Window and starts to load KDE then hangs for all eternity, it's supposedly "loading."

Before this restart I had been doing a few things, I feel that the cause of the problem is some appearance "tweaks" I was testing from the Mandrake Control Center. Here's what I did, I installed some themes I had downloaded from kdelook.org previously. I tried matching styles with window borders or whatever it's called. After I found one I liked I started looking around the 'Tweaks' tabs to see what all could be tweaked. I tried a few and didn't notice a difference and tried a few more. After I tried a last time the computer hung so I restarted and when it came back it hung at the loadup...

When it loads KDE all that it shows is the top menu bar and my taskbar, then if i click the taskbar (actually the k menu to be more specific) it causes the main menu bar (like from the Mac OS X menu bar) to disappear and does nothing more.

I feel maybe if I could change the theme configuration from the shell (I loaded 'failsafe' during boot with GRUB). That way I can revert all my settings back to what they had been previously. I also think that maybe my session is still loaded since I rebooted incorrectly, I just hit the power button. Is there any ways to close the session so when I login it starts up fresh? Thanks, help is appreciated!

By the way, I can't try loading Gnome because I had it set to automaticly login as user in KDE so there is no login screen. :(

[mdwatts]

It's kinda hard to tell exactly which of your changes has caused KDE to lockup on start.

You could boot into rescue mode, move ~/.kde to another location and then start X/KDE as that should get you going again. A new .kde will be created and of course you will loose all of your previous user KDE settings. If it works, you could copy some of the KDE settings from the backup .kde to the new ~/.kde in order to regain some of your previous settings.

[akuira]

Thanks mdwatts, I got it fixed; KDE loaded up like a charm. :)

BTW, luckily I hadn't changed anything I wanted to hold on too, I mainly downloaded all I wanted and I had planed to do it later and hadn't really got around to it. All I really lost was the configuration for my taskbar, menu, and konquerer.