not able to log in to KDE <SOLVED>

[ejt]

Re: not able to log in to KDE

I'm confused. Will that gparted live cd create more space? I think I only have 1,2g avail right now? I'll research partitions and gparted live cd and see if I can understand better.

[Snowhog]

Re: not able to log in to KDE

"My Documents" directory. To change into this directory from the CLI, you type:

cd My\ Documents

This is 'backslash-escaping' and is used here when a space is included in the directory name. Without it, the command:

cd My Documents

is interpreted as

cd My

(the space is not seen as a 'character' and part of the name of the directory)
You can see this backslash-escaping by typing:

dir

Any directories/file names that contain spaces will have the space preceded by the backslash.

If you are absolutely sure you want to delete all the contents of this directory 'en mass' you can do so with the command:

rm -r My\ Documents

NAME
rm - remove files or directories

SYNOPSIS
rm [OPTION]... FILE...

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of rm. rm removes each
specified file. By default, it does not remove directories.

-r, -R, --recursive
remove directories and their contents recursively

[ejt]

Re: not able to log in to KDE

That worked so I got rid of a bunch of files. Now I'm showing that out of a 12g hd I am using 9.g and have 1.9g available. But when I boot up a blue kde background show up and then a black terminal box pops up. I am viewing this forum by opening up the help tab in that terminal box. I guess the box is called the terminal emulator. Any how that opens up a firefox browser. Which is a good thing to find out about because before I had to go home to another computer to ask the questions to this forum. The unfortunate other problem I'm having right now is that the resolution of this window is such that I have to scroll horizontally to see a sentence. Help Please

[Fintan]

Re: not able to log in to KDE

Sorry to be repeating my self.
Move your /home to a different partition.
do a fresh install.

Less agro and more stable for the future.

[ejt]

Re: not able to log in to KDE

I would do that but I don't understand were I'm supposed to get the 6 to 10g for the new partition when I only have 1.9g avail? And other folks have said that a 12 g HD is almost too small to even run kumbuntu anyhow. Although I must say that it has been running just fine for the last 10 months until I installed kdetoys.

[dibl]

Re: not able to log in to KDE

other folks have said that a 12 g HD is almost too small to even run kumbuntu anyhow.

It's true -- technically, a 12G hard drive is large enough to run Kubuntu. The installed OS and a handful of commonly-used packages will consume about 5G, so that should leave room for a swap partition and some space.

But you won't be downloading lots of videos on that hard drive. :P

sudo df -h

will show the free space, by directories. Maybe there's something you can clean out.

[ejt]

Re: not able to log in to KDE &lt;Solved&gt;

Thanks to all who tried to help. I am somewhat back to normal. !st. I made more space, as I've said. Then I tried to recover the xserver. That corrected my resolution problem. Then I booted into KDE and yippee, here I am. Now to get more space and Partition my /home. Thanks again everyone now how do I mark as solved?