X-server crashes after login screen

[gaga]

1. After the user/password part of logging in to kubuntu, the xserver crashes and restarts. I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. What should I do?

2. How can I manually mount a USB-harddrive in text-mode under kubuntu?

Please help me!

[MartinEllis]

Re: X-server crashes after login screen

1. After the user/password part of logging in to kubuntu, the xserver crashes and restarts. I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. What should I do?

This is sometimes caused by a completely wrecked .kde directory.
It might be worth trying to create another user, and seeing if they can log in ok.

2. How can I manually mount a USB-harddrive in text-mode under kubuntu?

Normally:
pmount /dev/sda1
will mount the device under /media.

You can check whether it's sda, sdb or sdc or whatever by running:
  dmesg |grep sda
after plugging the device in (there's gotta be a better way, it escapes me right now)

If it's not sda1 (one), or sdb1, try removing the number, or try 2 through 4 instead.