I've been dal booting my ACER 5000 w/ 2008.1 and XP for quite some time (all the way back to 2007)

However over the lasy 6 weeks, every 10th or 11th boot I get to the point where i enter my userid and pw's the system starts to freak out.

Specificially it displays a message about KDESERVICES not starting, and then it refuses to load.

The last error states the inability o locste USERID/TMP

What I end up doing is booting to failsafe mode and SU into KONSOLE

Then from the cli I enter chown -hR userid/tmp

then reboot and all is well.

I dont access my Windows partition but every 4 - 5 weeks for my work on call.

any and all ideas appeeciates.

Thanks.

J