Login failure on FC4

[Timothy Murphy]

don fisher wrote:

> I also have a 2.6.12.2 kernel. Both have initrd files. When I attempt
> to log in from the console I am allowed to enter my user name and
> password. As soon as I enter return for the password I am returned to
> the login prompt. This also occurs when root attempts to log in. If I
> boot the kernel that came with the FC4 distribution the login is
> successful.

Last time I had this problem it was because a partition was full -
maybe /var .

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