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Re: [LUG] Xandros 3.0.1 - unable to login

 

Julian Hall wrote:
>
> Could it be a disk space issue?

Yes, but you could login to a tty and type "df -h" and find out for sure.

Almost every Unix/Linux graphical desktop login barfs on finding they
can't write to disk. It ought to be in the use case, it ought to say why
it failed, most don't, although quite a lot log the reason they fail to
disk (oh the irony*).

I find "apt-get clean" is often a handy first thing to try on Debian
derived distros when out of disk space on the root partition (if there
is only one partition).

 Simon

* Part of being a proper multi-user system is of course to continue
administrative and security functions when the users are stuffed due to
lack of resources, although this might not always be the "obvious thing"
on a desktop.

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