Help! Locked out of my laptop

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 22 November 2009 16:45, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 16:07, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 November 2009 13:20, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > could try removing everything matching
> > > rm -rf /tmp/*<username>* /var/tmp/*<username>*
> >
I finally managed to get a failsafe start-up - for some reason I had failed to 
when I tried earlier.  I got the console screen, and when I tried to startx I 
found there was a stale lock on it.  Removing that has given me my desktop 
back, so panic over!  :-)

Anne