FC7 user dead

[François Patte]

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antonio montagnani a écrit :
> 2007/6/7, Joe Smith <jes at martnet.com>:
>> antonio montagnani wrote:
>> > Suddenly when a standard user (myself) Fedora splash window start, but
>> > it freezes and I cannot start any program. I get only the window with
>> > no icon, nothing.. root, at least works..)
>>
>> *** FC7 user dead ***
>>
>> Now that's what I call a serious bug! I can't wait until the press gets
>> ahold of this news ;-)
>>
>> Anyway, when weird things like that start happening, the first thing I
>> check is disk space. All kinds of strange things happen when there's
>> nowhere to create temp files.
>>
>> <Joe
>>
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> space is available (126 GB are available..)

in /home

what about /tmp /var as suggested (if you have separate partition for
these...?

> 
> No...I didn't copy files from another installation, I did un upgrade
> (and other users are working): apart from the freezing of session
> close windows that freezes...

So you upgraded the system and keep /home unchanged? So "old" config
files are there... I had a big similar problem when I upgraded from fc4
to fc6, some config are not backward compatible and I had to make a
fresh new config.

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François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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