[CS-FSLUG] How to resolve an apparent Linux crash?

[David M.]

On Friday 13 August 2004 08:19 pm, David M. wrote:
> On Friday 13 August 2004 07:28 pm, Ruth Marlene Friesen wrote:
> > Hi Friends.
> > I guess I've been lurking long enough to jump in and introduce
> > myself. I've been super busy the last couple of weeks, and
> > wanted to get the feel of the group first, so I've just been
> > skimming the posts every couple of days.
>
> Are you running KDE? If so, try renaming your .kde folder in your /home
> directory then log out and back in.
>
> you will not lose anything such as bookmarks etc, because you can move them
> from the old .kde folder to the new one.
>
> Try that.
>
> If that don't work, you can alway rename your old folder back to .kde. If
> it does work and everything goes well, you can remove the renamed folder.

I also forgot, if you have access to a shell, log in and in your home folder 
and stick a floppy in your floppy drive and type:

dd if=/home/*your username*/Mail of=/dev/fd0

where *username* is your login name.

This will write your Mail folder to a floppy disk so if you do have to 
re-install you will not lose your mail.


-- 
David M.