I've corrupted my KDE session ! How do I fix it ?

[linuxguy]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:20 -0600, linux guy wrote:
> I accidentally ran my computer out of hard drive room.  I'm running
> F9/ KDE4.  Everything froze.  I couldn't do anything with that
> session, so I started a new console session (ctrl-alt-F6) and did a
> "shutdown -r now".
> 
> The computer rebooted.   I logged into a console.  I deleted the
> offending file, so now I have 3 GB of free hard drive space.
> 
> My problem is that if I attempt to start a new KDE session with that
> user, I get a bunch of error messages for the file icons on my
> desktop, the panel doesn't appear, the menus don't appear, etc.   It
> appears I have a corrupted session.  How does one start a new session
> that doesn't try to resume the old session or how does one fix a
> corrupted session ?
> 
> BTW: I can log in and run a KDE session as another user just fine.   I
> am doing so right now.
> 
> Thanks

I got it to run.   

I went into the .kde folder for my user and found that there were 3
symbolic link files (2 cache-xxx, 1 tmp-xxx) that were no longer
pointing to folders.  I deleted them and then I was able to start my
session without any problems.

I hope this helps someone.  
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