[NTLUG:Discuss] Unable to log into KDE

[Stuart A Johnston]

On 02/15/2014 10:29 AM, Wayne Dahl wrote:
> Ok, here's an update.  It looks like the problem is with my user login.
> I can login as a guest with no password and it works just fine, so KDE
> itself doesn't appear to be broken.  Any idea where to go from here?
> I've heard before about deleting the .kde directory from my /home and
> letting KDE rebuild it.  Is that a viable possibility?  If so, what
> would the ramifications be?

I had a vaguely similar problem recently though not KDE specific.  Some 
of the files in my home directly mysteriously changed ownership to root.

You might try this, just to eliminate that possibility:

sudo chown username /home/username -R