gnome login failing repeatedly

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 10:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 12:38 AM -0400 6/14/06, Joe Smith wrote:
> >johannes bauer wrote:
> >> Since my FC5 installation a few weeks ago I have a curious problem.
> >> The machine boots up nicely, I get the blue log-in screen, I type
> >> username and password, my account comes up, but just when I should be
> >> ready to use it, the screen goes blank (sometimes displaying some
> >> messages for 1/2 a second), and the machine jumps back to the blue
> >> X-window log-in screen, asking me again to log in.  Only after the
> >> second, third, fourth, of fifth log-in try it works, and I then can
> >> use my account normally. ...
> >
> >Before you investigate the really interesting possibilities ;-) check
> >that you have plenty of free disk space, especially under /tmp. The vast
> >majority of the time I find a Linux system doing weird things, it's
> >simply because something's run out of space and can't create a file or a
> >socket and doesn't gracefully fail ("This should never happen...").
> >
> >FC5 uses some obscene amounts of disk space on the root filesystem ;-\
> 
> If there's significantly more than 10 percent free space (10% is reserved
> for root to get out of trouble with), the next thing I'd try is to create a
> new user and see if that user has any trouble.  Do this from runlevel 3
> (get there by editing the kernel command line in grub -- press the ANY key
> while booting and follow the instructions).
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> TonyN.:'                       <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com>
You will find in Linux the reserved free space is closer to 5%. In unix
it was 10%
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Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>