Hi all I was running out of space on / , so I thought <lightbulb on> !I know I'll clear /tmp cos it's 100M! </lightbulb off> Very easy rm -rf /tmp Now when I log on all I get is a blank,blue screen with mouse pointer. I have tried changing the session to both KDE & Gnome, but no luck. I can get a failsafe terminal though & if I log in as root, Gnome works. What have I done? /tmp always used to be just that temporary, I even had a script on a previous system to clear it at reboot for security. Laurence --