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Replace user with the actual username. Removing these two directories just removes
the corrupted cache files. No real data is harmed using this procedure.
Corrupted desktop configuration files can always be replaced with the initial configura-
tion files. If you want to recover the user's adjustments, carefully copy them back from
their temporary location after the configuration has been restored using the default
configuration values.
To replace a corrupted desktop configuration with the initial configuration values,
proceed as follows:
1 Switch to a text console by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 .
2 Log in with your username.
3 Move the KDE configuration directory and the .skel files to a temporary loca-
4 Log out.
5 Log in again.
6 After the desktop has started successfully, copy the user's own configurations
51.5 Network Problems
Many problems of your system may be network-related, even though they do not seem
to be at first. For example, the reason for a system not allowing users to log in might
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tion:
mv .kde
.kde-ORIG-RECOVER
mv .skel .skel-ORIG-RECOVER
back into place:
cp -a .kde-ORIG-RECOVER/share .kde/share
IMPORTANT
If the user's own adjustments caused the login to fail and continue to do
so, repeat the procedure as described above, but do not copy the .kde/
share directory.
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