KDE not starting

[Tez]

Marcus wrote:
> John DeCarlo wrote:
>   
>> In recovery mode, go to your home folder and type "ls -al" and check
>> through all the ownerships for anything not owned by your user
>> account.  Change those files to match the rest (sudo chown user:user
>> .ICEauthority, for example) and see if that helps.
>>     
>
> Thanks, I had deleted several of these dot files because AFAIK, X/KDE 
> will recreate them. Hope I didn't mess up even more by deleting them.
>
>   
>> There could also be problems with your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  Maybe
>> something happened to it.  You can see if there is a recent version of
>> that file in the /etc/X11 directory that you can use instead.
>>     
>
> That sounds very likely too. If there is no copy, how do I create a new 
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file without KDE?
>
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Marcus
>
>   
In recovery mode run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"
That will recreate a xorg.conf file.

Tez